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Harvey, Richard Paul

AM FAA FAHMS FRS

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Medical scientist and Molecular biologist

Summary

Richard Harvey is an internationally recognised molecular biologist whose research focuses on the genetic basis of heart development and congenital cardiac disease. After ten years at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, leading his own research group, he joined the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, where he heads the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division. Harvey has received numerous awards for his research, including the Lemberg Medal from the Australian Society for Biochemical and Molecular Biology. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society, London.

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'Richard Harvey is a pioneer of the molecular era of cardiac development. His discovery of homeodomain transcription factor Nkx2-5 overturned two established paradigms - that the hearts of vertebrates and invertebrates are the products of convergent evolution, and that heart chambers are formed from anatomical segments. He documented the role of transcription factors Foxh1 and Tbx20 in chamber formation, and discovered a novel Nkx2-5-independent pathway of cardiac myogenesis. He was the first to explore the complex genetic basis of common congenital heart disease and is applying the developmental paradigm to analysis of cardiac stem cells that have enormous therapeutic potential." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/richard-harvey (accessed 30/10/18)]

Chronology

1977
Education - BSc (hons), University of Adelaide
1982
Education - PhD, University of Adelaide
1982
Award - Culross Prize for Scientific Research, University of Adelaide
1986 - 1987
Award - Fogarty International Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.
1988 - 1998
Career position - Head, Independent Research Laboratory, Senior Research Fellow and Faculty Member, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
1988 - 2008
Career position - Member, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
1998 -
Career position - Sir Peter Finley Professor of Heart Research, University of New South Wales
1998 - 2003
Career position - Member (later Head), Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
2001
Award - Hazel Croke Research Excellence Award, National Heart Foundation of Australia
2002 - 2003
Career position - President, Australian and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology
2003 -
Career position - Co-Deputy Director, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
2004
Award - R. T. Hall Prize, Cardiac Society of Australian and New Zealand
2005
Award - Julian Wells Medal and Oration, Lorne Genome Conference
2006
Career position - Visiting Professor, Institut Pasteur, Paris
2007 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2008 -
Award - Fellow, European Molecular Biology Organisation
2008
Career position - Member, Governance Group, Congenital Heart Disease DNA Bank, Children's Westmead Hospital, Sydney
2009 - 2013
Award - Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council
2010
Award - Lemberg Medal and Oration, Australian Society for Biochemical and Molecular Biology
2011
Career position - Member, Scientific Leadership Group, Special Initiative in Stem Cell Science, Australian Research Council
2011 - 2012
Career position - Chair, Section Committee, Animal Sciences, Australian Academy of Science
2013 - 2016
Career position - Inaugural Chair, National Committee on Cell and Developmental Biology, Australian Academy of Science
2015 -
Career position - Member, Grant Review Panel - Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Health and Medical Research Council
2016 -
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
2016
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS)
2017
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for significant service to medicine in the field of cell biology and cardiovascular research, and through scientific leadership roles
2018
Award - Prize for Excellence in Medical Biological Sciences (Cell and Molecular, Medical, Veterinary and Organismal), New South Wales Premier's Prizes in Science
2019 -
Career position - Member, Australian Society for Medical Research

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