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Ross CoppelProfessor
LinksUniversity Training1974: B.Med.Sci., University of Melbourne. CareerRoss began his career as an Intern in 1977 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He then accepted a position as Locum Junior House Officer, at Bethnal Green Hospital, London and Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 1980 he returned to Australia and commenced a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarship with The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). On completion of his PhD, Ross accepted a postdoctoral position with WEHI. This work involved research in the fields of malaria and primary biliary cirrhosis. In 1994, Ross accepted a position with Monash University and took up a position as Professor of Microbiology within the Medicine Faculty and was Department Head until 1998. Ross is a recipient of the Glaxo Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Fellow. He has authored or co-authored more than 260 scientific publications, including one book and eight book chapters. This included a chapter in the definitive 1998 American Society of Microbiology volume on malaria. He serves on the editorial board of Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, the top journal in the field of malaria and has reviewed for numerous journals including Nature, Science, Cell, J Cell Biol, Exp Parasitol and Acta Tropica. He is a named inventor on eight patents for inventions in malaria and primary biliary cirrhosis. In 1998, he became the first person to be appointed as an independent assessor to the Federal Court when he sat with the Justice in a major case involving a biotechnology patent. He is an internationally recognised scientist for his work in the fields of malaria and primary biliary cirrhosis. He has received funding to support his research activities from both national and international agencies including the NHMRC, the Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health, the United States Agency for International Development and the World Health Organization. He has been a co-recipient of three Wellcome Trust Large Equipment Grants. Ross is a member of an advisory committee that oversees Bioinformatics of the malaria genome project and he administers the malaria sequence database for the World Health Organization (WHO). He is also a member of the PlasmoDB consortium, a project to develop an organism-specific database that simplifies the analysis and exploitation of genomic sequence data by biologists. Ross is currently Professor of Microbiology at Monash University and his laboratory the Coppel Lab is involved in research into malaria and tuberculosis infection. In November 2000, Ross and colleagues in the Faculties of Medicine and Information Technology, along with Agriculture Victoria (Plant Biotechnology Centre) and CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences were successful in an application for a Science, Technology and Innovation Initiative, Round One Competitive Grant. The grant was offered to establish the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium. Ross is currently the Director of the Consortium. Research InterestsPostgraduate SupervisionRoss has successfully supervised ten PhD students to completion. His current students are researching topics which include: malaria, tuberculosis infection and bioinformatics. Honours ProjectsRoss welcomes local and international inquiries about postgraduate or honours studies in his laboratory. |
