Professor Peter Rathjen

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Phone: +61 3 8344 3238 Fax: +61 3 9347 9326 Email: dvc-research@ unimelb.edu.au

Professor Peter Rathjen is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Melbourne.  Prior to this position, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne from 2006 - 2008.

Professor Rathjen has a longstanding involvement in Embryonic Stem (ES) Cell research dating from postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford in the late 1980s.  On his return to the University of Adelaide in 1990, he established a research program directed towards understanding the processes by which stem cells differentiate into functional cell types during embryo development.  Intellectual Property from this work was commercialized with BresaGen Limited.  The work continues within the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne.

He was appointed to the Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Adelaide in 1995, became foundation Head of the Department of Molecular Biosciences in 2000, and in 2002 was appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences. In 2005, he was the recipient of the inaugural Premier's Award for Scientific Excellence (Research Leadership) in South Australia.

Professor Rathjen was a founding member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Special Research Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development, and the Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC).

Staff and Contact Details
Melbourne Research
Level 5, Alan Gilbert Building

Executive Assistant
Ms Louise Webb
Phone: +61 3 8344 3238
Email: lmwebb@ unimelb.edu.au

Executive Officer
Dr Frances Skrezenek
Phone: +61 3 8344 4284
Email: f.skrezenek@ unimelb.edu.au