Brendan Crabb is an immunologist whose research is focused on determining ways to treat malaria including the development of a vaccine. With his team he discovered how proteins from the infected parasite invade red blood cell hosts. He and his colleague Alan Cowman are renowned for their development of the molecular genetic systems in human malaria. In 2008 Crabb was appointed Director of the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health.
"Brendan Crabb has made several discoveries of significance about human malaria. His team discovered the malaria translocon, a protein machine that allows the translocation of malaria proteins into its host cell, a highly vulnerable point in the parasite's life cycle. He was the first to provide an order for the myriad of receptor-ligand interactions that mediate red blood cell invasion by malaria parasites. He is also a pioneer of genetic technologies in human malaria, describing the first gene knockout in this organism, and has made fundamental discoveries in malaria pathogenesis using these and other approaches." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/brendan-crabb 31/10/2022]
1992
1992
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne
1996
2000
Career position - Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer), Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne
2000
2008
Career position - International Research Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.A.
2001
Career position - Board Member, Gene Technology Access Centre
2001
2001
Award - Burnet Prize, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
2001
2008
Career position - Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
2003
2004
Career position - Senior Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council
2004
2004
Career position - Chair, Molecular Approaches to Malaria Meeting, Lorne, Victoria
2004
2005
Career position - Chair, Biosafety Committee, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
2004
2007
Career position - Principal Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council
2005
2005
Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne
2006
2009
Career position - Editor-in-Chief, International journal of parasitology
2007
2008
Career position - Senior Principal Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council
2008
Career position - Director and CEO, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
2008
Career position - Chair, Vaccine Science Portfolio Advisory Council (VSPAC), Program for Appropriate Technology in Health/Malaria Vaccine Initiative (PATH/MVI), Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
2008
Career position - Adjunct Professor, University of Melbourne
2008
2008
Career position - Chair, Molecular Approaches to Malaria Meeting, Lorne, Victoria
2009
2009
Award - Bancroft-Mackerras Medal for Excellence, Australian Society for Parasitology
2010
Career position - Director, Alfred Medical Research Education Precinct
2010
Career position - Director, AMREP Animal Services Pty Ltd
2010
Career position - Adjunct Professor, Monash University
2010
2014
Career position - Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
2012
2012
Career position - Chair, 9th Indo-Australian Biotechnology Conference
2012
2014
Career position - President, Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes
2013
2013
Career position - Chair, Gordon Conference of Malaria, Italy
2013
2013
Career position - Member, Health Exports Advisory Committee
2013
2013
Career position - Chair, Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct Council
2015
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS)
26 Jan 2015
26 Jan 2015
Award - Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) - for eminent service to medical science as a prominent researcher of infectious diseases, particularly malaria, and heir impact on health in developing nations, as an advocate, mentor and administrator, and through fostering medical research nationally and internationally
2021
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)