Dr Paul Coughlin MBBS, BMed.Sci, FRACP, FRCPA, Ph.D.

Wellcome Senior International Fellow in Medical Science

Paul Coughlin graduated from Monash University Medical School in 1982 and trained as a haematologist at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He gained his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 1991 and completed his PhD in 1995. His doctoral research identified and characterised members of the intracellular serpin family. In Robin Carrell's laboratory at the University of Cambridge he carried out further research on the role of serpins in haemopoiesis.

After the award of his Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship, Paul returned to Monash University at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases where he continues his work on intracellular serpins. His research focuses on the interaction of intracellular serpins with protease and non-protease ligands and how these activities are modulated by redox conditions and conformational change. He maintains collaborative links with the Structural Medicine Group in Cambridge and the Serpins Group at Monash University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.