This Week Wednesday 20 April 2022 – Lunch Meeting
Speaker Professor Peter Doherty AC
Topic ‘Opportunities for Australian Research Development & Manufacturing’
Venue No 35 Sofitel Melbourne on Collins & Online via ZOOM
Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-20-april
University of Melbourne Laureate Professor Peter Doherty shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells.
Peter was Australian of the Year in 1997, and has since been commuting between St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne.
He has been involved in research on infection and immunity for 50 years and is the patron and namesake of Melbourne’s Doherty Institute which was the first outside of China to isolate the COVID-19 virus.
Peter was given a Vocational Service Award in 2003/4 and elected as an Honorary Member 18/08/2004 - President Bob Glindemann
His official Bio https://www.doherty.edu.
Don’t miss this meeting as it will be of great interest to us all and your guest. Remember Peter was our first guest speaker on 18 March 2020 when Rotary Melbourne pivoted to broadcasting our luncheons due to the outbreak of COVID. THE live presentation via the Rotary Melbourne Facebook site reached 4,165 people, 45 viewers shared the presentation to their Facebook pages, and the fantastic success of Professor Peter Doherty and Rotary Melbourne's presentation was viewed by 3,100 plus people!
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