Person
Kelso, Anne
AO FAA
- Occupation
- Medical scientist and Science administrator
Summary
Anne Kelso has been influential in Australia and internationally in immunology, in science administration and policy roles, and in executive positions in professional organisations. She has fostered the development and commercialisation of Australian vaccine technologies and placed Australia in the forefront of global influenza surveillance, research and pandemic preparedness. Her research was particularly into the regulation of T lymphocyte effector function. Kelso was CEO of the CRC for Vaccine Technology and of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research in Influenza, and in 2015 was appointed CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Details
"Anne Kelso's contributions to Australian science are wide-ranging and significant. As a biomedical researcher, she made a sustained original contribution through her research on the regulation of T lymphocyte effector function. She advanced the discipline of immunology more broadly as a communicator and through service to national and international professional societies. In her Directorship roles she has fostered the development and commercialisation of Australian vaccine technologies, and substantially strengthened Australia's position in global influenza virus surveillance, research and pandemic preparedness. As CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) she is leading major reform of the agency's grant program." [from www.science.org.au/profile/anne-kelso 18/1/2022]
Chronology
- 1982 - 1984
- Career position - Queen Elizabeth II Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 1985 - 1989
- Career position - Senior Research Officer, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- 1989
- Award - Burnet Prize, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- 1990 - 1992
- Career position - Senior Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- 1992 -
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Immunology and cell biology
- 1992 - 1996
- Career position - Scientific Consultant, AMRAD Corporation
- 1992 - 1996
- Career position - Head, Transplantation Biology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1993 - 1994
- Career position - Scientific consultant, CSL Ltd
- 1993 - 1998
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Journal of interferon and cytokine research
- 1995 - 1996
- Career position - President, Australasian Society for Immunology
- 1996 - ?
- Career position - Senior Principal Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1996
- Career position - President, 1st Congress, Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania
- 1997 - 1998
- Career position - Head, Leucocyte Biology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1997 - 2000
- Career position - Conjoint Professor, University of Queensland
- 1997 - 2000
- Career position - Member of Council, Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania
- 1998 - 2001
- Career position - Secretary-General, International Union f Immunological Societies
- 1999 -
- Career position - Member, Research Advisory Board, John Curtin School of Medical Research
- 1999 -
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Transplant immunology
- 1999 - 2000
- Career position - Chair, Immunology Discipline Panel, National Health and Medical Research Council
- 2000 - 2002
- Career position - Chair, Scientific Committee, CRC for Asthma
- 2000 - 2002
- Career position - Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Beniec Australia Ltd
- 2000 - 2003
- Career position - Member, Scientific Advisory Board, CRC for Diagnostics
- 2000 - 2006
- Career position - Member, Advisory board, Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, University of Queensland
- 2000 - 2006
- Career position - Director and CEO, CRC for Vaccine Technology
- 2001 - 2004
- Career position - Member, Research Committee, National Health and Medical Research Council
- 2002 -
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, BMC immunology
- 2002 -
- Career position - Member, Medical Advisory Board, Charles and Sylvia Viertel Charitable Foundation
- 2002 -
- Career position - Member, National Influenza Pandemic Action Committee
- 2002 - 2003
- Career position - Member, Infectious Diseases Emergency Response Working Group
- 2004 -
- Career position - Director, VacTX Pty Ltd
- 2004
- Award - Burnet Orator, Australasian Society of Immunology
- 2005 -
- Career position - Member of Council, Queensland University of Technology
- 2005 -
- Career position - Adjunct Professor, Griffith University
- 2007 -
- Career position - Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
- 2007 -
- Career position - Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research in Influenza
- 2007 -
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Influenza and other respiratory viruses
- 2007
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to science, particularly in the field of immunology and vaccine research through contributions to a range of scientific organisations, and as an academic and mentor
- 2012 - 2015
- Career position - Member of Council, National Health and Medical Research Council
- 2015 - 2023
- Career position - Chief Executive Officer, National Health and Medical Research Council
- 2018 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
- 2018 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
Related entries
Published resources
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47502196. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/215378242. Details
See also
- Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 22 January 2019, Last modified: 15 June 2022