Dr. Iain Campbell

Biography

Iain Campbell grew up in Dee Why on the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia. He obtained graduate (1979) and doctoral (1982) degrees in Science from the University of Sydney. After a short postdoctoral period in Britain and Sweden, Iain returned to Australia and began his career at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1982, later moving to the Walter Eliza Hall Institute in 1985. In 1989, he took a sabbatical at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, USA, where he remained for 14 years as a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded biomedical research scientist and Professor in the Department of Neuropharmacology. In January 2004, he returned to Australia to accept the Chair in Molecular Biology at the School of Molecular Bioscience at the University of Sydney. His research aims to understand the molecular and cellular bases of host defense and the immunoinflammatory processes contributing to diseases of the central nervous system. During his time at Scripps, he was responsible for the development of unique functional genomics approaches and novel transgenic modeling strategies for the expression of key proinflammatory and anti-microbial cytokine genes specifically in astrocytes within the CNS. His work has significantly advanced the understanding of the causal roles of cytokines and chemokines in inflammation related to neurological diseases and has unraveled key mechanisms controlling potent biological response modifiers that communicate with the CNS to modulate cellular function and behavior.

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