Frank Grutzner
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
Professor Frank Grützner received his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin in 2001. In the same year he moved to the Australian National University where he led and international team that resolved the longstanding controversy about the complex sex chromosome system in the platypus. In 2005 he moved to the University of Adelaide, where he is an ARC Australian Research Fellow and group leader at the School of Biological Sciences. Dr Grutzner has worked in the field of comparative genome biology in many different species and published extensively in leading international journals including Nature, Nature Genetics and Science. For the past 10 years he has been instrumental in establishing monotremes as evolutionary model for research in comparative genomics. He has won several awards for his research including the Eppendorf Medal for the Young Australian Investigator (2005) and the Tall Poppy Science Award (2007/8). His research has been supported by competitive ARC research fellowships and grants since 2003. Dr Grutzner is an associate editor for BMC Genomics and has served on NHMRC grant review panels. He is currently a member of the ARC college of experts.
Research Interest
Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc
