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CEO | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)Professor Anne Kelso is the CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australian Government’s lead funding agency for health and medical research. Following her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Professor Kelso undertook research in immunology at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Lausanne, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane. From 2000 until 2006, she was also Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology. She returned to Melbourne as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and honorary professor at the University of Melbourne from 2007 until she took up her role with NHMRC in 2015. |