EMCR Monthly Morning Tea - Special event october
Date: Tuesday 1 October 2024
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Location: TRI Seminar Rooms (in-person only)
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Topic: Fireside chat with Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Peter Doherty
The EMCR Networking morning teas are a monthly event for TRI-based Early and Mid-Career Researchers and MSH and CHQ Early and Mid-Career clinicians. Bring along your coffee mug and enjoy morning tea while networking with your peers. At the October morning tea you will hear our special guest speaker, Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Peter Doherty.
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, is active on social media and was a prominent commentator through the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the fireside chat Professor Doherty will discuss his spectacular career, preparing for future pandemics and more. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so be sure to bring along any questions you have for Professor Doherty.
