Basten, Antony (Tony) (1939 - )

Summary

Tony Basten was appointed Founding Director of the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology in 1989 and presently holds the Chair of Immunology at the University of Sydney, is a consultant physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Chief Scientist of CenTec Limited. He is still active in research and heads the B Cell Laboratory at the Centenary Institute.

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Chronology

1963

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Adelaide

1964

Career position - Junior Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

1965

Career position - Junior Registrar at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

1966 - 1968

Career position - Nuffield Dominions Trust Clinical Assistant at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

1969

Career position - Senior House Officer at the Nuffield Department of Medicine

1970 -

Career position - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)

1970 - 1971

Career position - Queen Elizabeth II Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Victoria

1971 -

Career position - Member of the Academic Staff, University of Sydney

1971 - 1990

Career position - Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney

1972 -

Award - Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists Australasia (FRCPA)

1975 -

Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)

1975 -

Career position - Professor of Immunology, University of Sydney

1981 - 1987

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)

1982 - 1990

Career position - Head of the Division of Medicine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

1987 - ?

Career position - Chairman, National AIDS Task Force

1987

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1981]

1988 - ?

Career position - Chief Commonwealth Medical and Scientific Advisor on AIDS and Executive member of the Australian National Council on AIDS

1988

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1989 -

Career position - Director of the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology in Sydney

1992 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1994 -

Career position - Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

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• 'Basten, Antony (1939-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-601392. Details