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Professor Fabienne Mackay

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  • Professor Fabienne Mackay studied Medicine and Biomedical Engineering before she obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology and Immunology from Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France. She is the 8th Director and CEO of QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Queensland. Prior to that, in 1994, she started her research career in the biotech industry at Biogen Inc. in Boston. She then arrived in Australia in 1999 when she joined the Garvan Institute in Sydney and became Director of the Autoimmunity Research Unit. In 2009, she was recruited as Head of the Department of Immunology at Monash University. In 2015, she became the inaugural Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences and Head of the Department of Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

    CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

    • Director and CEO, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
    • Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland.
    • Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
    • Member of the QIMR Berghofer Council, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University.

    PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

    2015-2020
    • Head, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Victoria, Australia.  
    2015-2017
    • Head, Department of Pathology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
    2009-2015
    • Head and Chair, Department of Immunology, Monash University, Central Clinical School Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Responsible for undergraduate and post-graduate Immunology education of BSc, BMS and MBBS students.
    • Deputy Head of the Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    2006-2008
    • Director of the Autoimmunity Research Unit, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    2001-2006
    • Principal Research Fellow, Arthritis and Inflammation Research Program, The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    1994-2000
    • Scientist and BAFF Project leader, BIOGENIDEC Inc. Cambridge, MA, USA