Professor Dick Strugnell

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Graduate Research) The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Phone: +61 3 8344 8479 Fax: +61 3 9349 2103 Email: rastru@ unimelb.edu.au

Professor Dick Strugnell assumed the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Graduate Research) at the University of Melbourne in December 2007.
 
As Pro Vice-Chancellor (Graduate Research), Professor Strugnell has responsibility for activity performance, oversight of the support mechanisms and academic extension programs, and quality assurance of research higher degrees at The University of Melbourne.

Professor Strugnell holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours and was awarded his Doctorate of Philosophy from Monash University. He is a medical microbiologist with an interest in vaccines against bacterial infections and anti-bacterial immune responses. He has worked at Monash University, the University of Birmingham and the Wellcome Research Laboratories in the United Kingdom. Professor Strugnell was appointed to a Senior Lectureship at the University of Melbourne in 1991, as an Associate Professor and Reader in 1999, then Professor in 2001.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology (FASM) and a Member of the American Society for Microbiology.  He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1984, a CJ Martin Fellowship (NHMRC) in 1986, and the ASM Fenner Research Prize in 1999.  He has held senior administrative positions with the CRC for Vaccine Technology, and acts as a Director and of VacTX Pty Ltd, a start-up Vaccine Company.  He reviews for several major funding agencies including the NHMRC, the Medical Research Council (UK) and Wellcome Trust.  He has served on WHO and GAVI technical committees.

Professor Strugnell has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and his research is currently funded by the NHMRC, the ARC and the Gates Foundation.  He has served on NHMRC Grant Review Panels, and is currently Panel Selector for Microbiology with the NHMRC.

Staff and Contact Details
Graduate Centre (1888 Building), Grattan Street
The University of Melbourne

Executive Assistant
Ms Sharon Renaut
Phone: +61 3 8344 8479
Email: s.renaut@ unimelb.edu.au