Professor Tony Cunningham

Professional information

Professional biography

Professor Cunningham is Director, Westmead Millennium Institute and Research Centre, Westmead Hospital and Professor of Research Medicine and Sub-Dean (research) Western Clinical School, the University of Sydney. He has held a number of clinical and academic appointments in virology and infectious diseases, both in Australia and in the United States. He was appointed Associate Professor of Virology / Medicine in the University of Sydney, Department of Medicine in 1989. He joined the Board of the Children's Medical Research Institute as the nominee of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney in 1996. In 2001 he was appointed Deputy Director and in 2002 Co-ordinator (Director) of the National Centre for HIV Virology Research. His research interests focus on viral medicine, especially basic biology pathogenesis, seroepidemiology, diagnosis and antiviral treatment of HIV and herpes virus infections. He has particular clinical research interests in the epidemiology of HSV-2 and the development of new antivirals and vaccines for genital herpes.

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Board member

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Member for

2 years 42 weeks