Frank Morgan was appointed the Director of Research in Molecular Biology at the St Vincent's School of Medical Research, Melbourne, in 1973. By the end of his term in 1988 the School had been renamed the St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research (SVI). He was a student at Newman College and the University of Melbourne before becoming a Junior Resident Medical Office at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne in 1966. He was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship in the USA 1969-1973 and was a Fellow of the International Institute for Study of Human Reproduction, Columbia University New York 1969-1970 and then Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia 1972-1973. On leaving SVI he was a Senior Research Fellow La Trobe University 1988-1990; Medical Advisor Commonwealth Department of Health 1990-1994; and Senior Medical Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs from 1994.
From the SVI website (Our History):
After being appointed director in 1973, Frank Morgan extended the Institute's research activities from Edman's field of protein purification and sequencing to the relatively new area of protein crystallography. Morgan lured Australian-born crystallography pioneer Neil Isaacs from the UK to Melbourne, to found the first protein crystallographic laboratory for the three-dimensional study of protein molecules in Australia (outside of CSIRO). Defining the three-dimensional structure of proteins is not just academic. These molecular structures help us develop 'smart drugs' specifically designed to interact with a particular disease-causing protein. [viewed, June 2024]