Professor Dougl Hilton delivered the 2011 Warren Jones Oration.
Prof Hilton is Director of the Walter and Eliza hall Institute of Medical Research and Head of the Department of Medical Biology at the University of Melbourne.
The topic of Prof Hilton's Oration was: "The Decade Ahead - Challenges for Australian Health and Medical Research".
It was held on 20 September 2011, 6pm, at the University Club Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia with a cocktail function to follow at 7pm.
Inquiries to Jacky Jarrett 9431 2133.
Professor Douglas Hilton is the 6th Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). For his entire research career of 27 years he has worked on a single topic - the molecular regulation of blood cell production and function.
Douglas began his scientific career in 1984 as a vacation student in Professor Ian Young's laboratory at the John Curtin School of Medical Research. In 1986 he undertook his BSc (Hons) and then his PhD at WEHI working with Prof Nicos Nicola and Prof Donald Metcalf, with whom he discovered Leukemia Inhibitory Factor. He spent two years as a post-doc at the Whitehead Institute, MIT in Cambridge working on the structure/function relationship of the erythropoietin receptor. He retuned to Australia in 1993 and established a laboratory within the Cancer and Haematology Division at WEHI. In the following 5 years he cloned the IL-11 receptor, IL-13 receptor and an entirely novel family of negative regulators of cytokine signaling; the Suppressors Of Cytokine Signaling or SOCS proteins. In the last few years he has worked with Dr Warren Alexander and Dr Benjamin Kile to establish a new program using large-scale mouse genetics and genomics to dissect the molecular regulation of blood cell formation.
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