Name Pamela Russell | ||
Pamela Russell is an Australian immunologist.
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Current position
Education and training
Prof Russell trained in immunology at Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, where she obtained an MSc with Sir Macfarlane Burnet. Subsequently Prof Russel completed a PhD with Sir Gustav Nossal, on studies of autoimmune diseases.
Russell's postdoctoral training was at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, and then she moved to Sydney to take up a postdoctoral position at The Kolling Institute of Medical Research.
Professor Pamela Russell joined the APCRC – Q in 2009 [1]
Research
Russell's focus of the work at the Kolling Institute was on autoimmunity, specifically Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE), but also some related work in rheumatoid arthritis and in ankylosing spondylitis and its association with HLAB27.
In 1984, Prof Russell changed her research focus to cancer and, with Dr Derek Raghavan, established the Urological Cancer Research Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital/University of Sydney. Prof Russell then directed the Oncology Research Centre (ORC), Prince of Wales Hospital from 1992 to 2010, as conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Russell then moved to her current position in Queensland, QUT.
Awards
Awards [2]
Grants and society memberships
Russell's success in grants and her society memberships are all listed on her profile page.