Alan Cowman-Achievements

Alan Cowman-Achievements

Selected achievements

Awards

2016 Wellcome Trust grant for development of antimalarial drugs with Merck & Co., Inc.

2013 Mahathir Science Award, Mahathir Science Foundation, Malaysia

2013 Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation, Victorian Government and veski

2011 Fellow of The Royal Society

2001 Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 

Grants and funding

2005-2009, 2010-2012, 2013-2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship 

2007-2010 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 

2009-2015 Program for Appropriate Technology in Heal/Malaria Vaccine Initiative/USAID 

2011-2016 Program Grant, National Health and Medical Research Council 

Service to the community

2010-2014 President, World Federation of Parasitology 

Early Career Scientific Selection Committee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 

Advisory Board, Griffith University

Board of Review, Science journal

Promotions Board, QIMR Berghofer Institute 

Super Content: 
Professor Alan Cowman sitting outside

Institute Deputy Director, Science Strategy, Professor Alan Cowman AC has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his contributions to medical research and scientific education.

Professor Alan Cowman in the lab

Video with Victoria Prize-winning malaria researcher Professor Alan Cowman