Ian Alexander

Biography

Director Laboratory Research and Senior Staff Specialist, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW), and Professor in Pediatrics and Molecular Medicine, University of Sydney. He is also head of the Gene Therapy Research Unit, a joint initiative of Children’s Medical Research Institute and CHW. During his career, Dr. Alexander headed the first group in Australia to treat a genetic disease (SCID-X1) by gene therapy. After completing specialty training in pediatrics at Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital, Dr. Alexander obtained a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Garvan Institute in Sydney before completing clinical genetics training at the Murdoch Institute in Melbourne. He then undertook postdoctoral studies at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle before returning to Australia to take up his current position. In 2015 he was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Research Interest

Medical Sciences