Prof. Iain Campbell
Professor
Biological sciences
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Iain Campbell obtained his graduate (1979) and doctoral (1982) degrees in Science from the University of Sydney. After a short postdoctoral period in Britain and Sweden, Iain returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1982 and then moved to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in 1985. In 1989, he left Australia¿s shores to do a sabbatical at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, USA and that is where he remained for over 14 years as a US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded biomedical research scientist and a Professor in the Department of Neuropharmacology. In January of 2004, Iain returned to Australia to take on a new challenge as Chair of Molecular Biology within the School of Molecular Bioscience at the University of Sydney.
Research Interest
Biological sciences Discover at the molecular and cellular levels the role of the immune system in causing diseases of the central nervous system with the ultimate aim of using this knowledge to develop more effective therapeutic approaches for debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
