Fisher Prize genetics award to UQ researcher

Fisher Prize genetics award to UQ researcher

Professor Brandon Wainwright deputy director of the University of Queensland's Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology (CMCB) and Professor of Biochemistry has been awarded the Fisher Prize and Lecture from the University of Adelaide.

Professor Wainwright has previously been awarded the Gottschalk Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.

The Fisher Prize is an occasional award made for significant contributions to Australian genetics.

Previous recipients have included Sir Gustav Nossal, recently retired Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Professor Peter Parsons, Foundation Professor of Genetics at Latrobe University.

Professor Wainwright is CMCB group leader in the molecular genetics of human disease and is also the Scientific Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for the Discovery of Genes for Common Human Diseases.