Prof Alex Loukas ~ Distinguished Professor

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Prof Alex Loukas Prof Alex Loukas Distinguished Professor Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine James Cook University Web +61742321608 work

I obtained a BSc Hons in 1990 and a PhD in 1995 from University of Queensland in the field of immunoparasitology. I then conducted postdoctoral work at University of Edinburgh with Rick Maizels and an assistant professorship at George Washington University in the US to work with Peter Hotez and the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative. In 2004 I returned to Australia as an NHMRC Career Development Fellow at Queensland Institute of Medical Research where I established the Helminth Biology laboratory. In 2010 I moved to James Cook University in Cairns, QLD as a Tropical Research Leader, where I established the Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics (now Centre for Molecular Therapeutics). I have held consistent NHMRC funding in the form of fellowships (currently senior principal research fellow), program grants, project grants and development grants, as well as regular funding from the US National Insitutes of Health and various pharmaceutical companies, including Merck, AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson. I am lead founder of Paragen Bio, a spin-out company developing worm-derived proteins as anti-inflammatory therapeutics.

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