2024 Game Changer Series - Seminar #3

Join us for the third and final instalment of the TRI Game Changer Seminar Series for 2024, where we will have a conversation with Nobel Award-winning scientist, Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, where he will share reflections on his stellar career, his key learnings and vision for the future.

Professor Doherty is an Australian immunologist and pathologist who, with Rolf Zinkernagel of Switzerland, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for their discovery of how the body’s immune system distinguishes virus-infected cells from normal cells. The Nobel prize led to an increasing involvement in public science communication, both in Professor Doherty’s own area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, and in topics related to environmental sustainability and climate change. 

After leading a research laboratory at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania (1975–1982), Professor Doherty headed the department of experimental pathology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra (1982–1988) and served as chairman (1988–2001) of the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he still holds the Michael F Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research. In 2002, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, and from 2014, has been at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture between the university and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is the author of many books, including ‘A Light History of Hot Air’ and ‘The Beginners Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize’, is active on social media and was a prominent commentator through the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a Nobel Prize winner.

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Date: Tuesday 1 October 2024
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Venue: TRI Auditorium & Online
RSVP: Register to join in-person or online via Zoom (Zoom details to be provided upon registration)