Alan F. Cowman BSc, PhD, FAA FRS

Professor Alan Cowman FAA FRS is Deputy Director of Science Strategy at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Head of the Division of Infection and Immunity. He is a visiting Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University and held that position since 2006.

He did his undergraduate and honours degrees in science at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He then moved to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne where he obtained his PhD in the laboratory of Professor David Kemp through the University of Melbourne. He was awarded a C. J. Martin Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council for postdoctoral work at the University of California – Berkeley in the laboratory of Dr Gerry Rubin studying Drosophila eye function and development. He then returned to Australia and took up a position at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and has developed a laboratory that studies malaria. Currently, he has a Senior Principal Research Fellowship from the NHMRC and held an Australia Fellowship from 2007-2012.