Professor
Michael Alpers
AO FAA FRS
The candidate has made major contributions to tropical medicine through studies carried out from a base in the national research institution of a tropical disease-endemic country. He designed and carried out these studies in the course of building up the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR) from a dying institution to one of world renown. His major scientific achievements include seminal studies on the natural history and epidemiology of kuru; work which led to the first successful transmission of kuru to chimpanzees; and pivotal studies on pneumonia and malaria using the facilities of the PNGIMR for direct field investigations.
Fields of research
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES-
3207
MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
- 320702 Medical Infection Agents (incl. Prions)
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Expertise type
- Medical Sciences
- Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease
- Malaria
- Tropical Medicine
- Community Health
- Infectious Diseases
- Prion Diseases
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