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Professor Mathew Vadas

MB BS, PhD, DSc, FRACP, FRCPA

Professor Vadas is the Executive Director of the Centenary Institute. He was trained in medicine at the University of Sydney and as a physician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital before completing a doctorate at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. After postdoctoral work at Harvard, he returned to Australia and built up a significant research enterprise in Adelaide. He was a chief initiator and inaugural Director of the Hanson Centre for Cancer Research (now Hanson Institute). Professor Vadas has also contributed strongly to the Australian biotechnology sector, being involved in the establishment of two ASX listed biotechnology companies. He has served on or chaired several NHMRC committees, the Medical Research Advisory Board of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation and is a member of the Board of Governors of the SMILE Foundation and Arts and Health Foundation and supports the Contemporary Collection Benefactors of the Art Gallery of NSW. His research embodies a multidisciplinary approach to discover new molecules or pathways that may uncover fundamental phenomena of nature and/or lead to novel therapeutics. Using techniques of cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics and genomics, he has primarily focused on endothelial and leucocyte biology with special emphasis on cytokines or growth factors and pathways of cellular signalling. His work has been cited more than 16 000 times.