Wai-Hong Tham-Achievements

Wai-Hong Tham-Achievements

Selected achievements

Awards

2020 International Award, Biochemical Society, UK

2018 Elizabeth Blackburn Biomedical Fellowship, NHMRC

2018 Burnet Prize

2017 David Syme Research Prize

2017 HHMI-Wellcome International Research Scholar

Grants

2020 Anti-Viral Grant, Medical Research Future Fund

2020 Ideas Grant, National Health and Medical Research Council

2019 Project Grant, National Health and Medical Research Council

2018 Project Grant, National Health and Medical Research Council

2016 Project Grant, CIC National Health and Medical Research Council

Service to the community

Scientific Advisory Board, Center of Structural Systems Biology, Germany

Editorial Board Member, FEMS Microbes

2020 Chair, Malaria Gordon Research Conference

Scientific Advisory Board, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee, MultiViVax

2016, 2017, 2018 Grant Review Panel member, National Health and Medical Research Council

2016, 2017 Editorial Board, Frontiers in Microbial Immunology

Super Content: 
Health Minister Greg Hunt with Institute researchers

The Australian Government will invest $3M in Walter and Eliza Hall Institute research programs that are developing new classes of medicines for COVID-19.

A/Prof Wai-Hong Tham with Mr Chris Thomas and Prof Doug Hilton

The Institute’s top accolade, the Burnet Prize, was presented to Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham for breakthrough research that has brought the world closer to an effective new vaccine for malaria.

Hands holding a laboratory dish

Research into malaria and toxoplasmosis, and the immune response to infection benefits from Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships program.