Ian Ramshaw

Director (ANU)

Ian Ramshaw (Director) is a Professor and Group Leader of the Vaccine Immunology Group at The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR). He completed his PhD at the ANU in 1973 and developed a research career in immunology and the development of vaccines fir infectious diseases, such as HIV. He put together a consortium to test a vaccine strategy developed at the ANU known as prime boost immunisation that was funded by the US National Institutes of Health to carry out clinical trials in Australia and Thailand.

He has also been studying the effect of co-expressing cytokine genes on the pathoganicity of viruses and published the seminal paper showing increased virulence of poxviruses expressing the gene for IL-4 (Paper found here). This was the first example of a genetically manipulated organism showing increased virulence which brought to the fore the potential concerns for bioterrorism.

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