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David Anderson

David Anderson PhD

Immunology and Microbiology, Virology
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Dr. David Andersonis an Associate Professor, completed his PhD in molecular virology in 1988 and has worked at the Burnet Institute as a full-time research scientist since that time, with a strong focus on translational research in diagnostics and vaccines for more than 25 years. His work in diagnostics has expanded from a focus on hepatitis viruses (Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E and Hepatitis B) to include other infectious diseases including HIV, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria and most recently sepsis, as well as diagnostics for liver disease and cirrhosis.

He led the design and development of the Visitect® CD4 T-cell tests, now manufactured under license by Omega Diagnostics, UK, which established a new paradigm for using lateral flow point-of-care technology as an alternative to flow cytometry for the measurement of clinically relevant immune cell markers. He was the Founder and serves as President and CEO for the Burnet Institute spinoff company,
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