
Professor Kiaran Kirk
Fellow 1993-1996
Research Interests
The physiology and biochemistry of the malaria parasite.
Other Information
Staines Medical Research Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford, 1.10.92 to 30.9.95
Sub-Rector at Exeter College, Oxford, 1994/95
Senior Research Fellow in Physiology at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1.10.95 to 31.12.97
Resigned fellowship on 31.5.96 on taking up the Chair of Biology at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, on 1.6.96. Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, from 1.12.96 – 31.5.09
Fellowship continued until 31.12.96
Awarded the Roche Medal of the Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2002
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003
Elected to an Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, 2003
Awarded Australian Society for Parasitology’s Bancroft-Mackerras Medal, 2008
Director ANU Research School of Biology 2009-2014
Dean, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, 2014-2017
Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, 2017
Dean, ANU College of Science, 2017-2024
Dean, ANU College of Science & Medicine, 2025-present
Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 2023