Professor Kiaran Kirk

Categories: Biochemistry, Infection, Pharmacology/ Therapeutics, Physiology
Location: The Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra

Fellow 1993-1996

Area of Current 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-present