Monash University > News and Events > Monash Memo

Monash scientist walks on world stage

8 October 2008

Professor James Whisstock

Professor James Whisstock, from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, has been selected as one of two scientists to represent the Asia region at the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum in Kyoto later this month.

Two scientists were selected from Asia, with seven others selected from other regions around the world.

The forum will enable Professor Whisstock to present his research to scientific, political, and business leaders.

Professor Whisstock said the STS forum would be a wonderful opportunity to highlight his work to an international audience.

"The forum brings together some of the world's leading researchers and the politicians and business people who have the mandate to change how things happen," Professor Whisstock said.

"To be able to represent Monash University at this forum is therefore an exciting prospect."

Professor Whisstock is recognised as a world-leading expert on bio-information and structural biology, with particular interests in protease biology and the Membrane Attack Complex/Perforin-like family of immunity proteins.

He is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow, heads the NHMRC Program on Protease systems biology, and is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics.

Earlier this year Professor Whisstock was named among the top Australian scientists of the year and awarded a Federation Fellowship.

For more information on the forum visit the Science and Technology in Society website.