ProfessorBarry Slobedman

Professor Barry Slobedman obtained both a BSc (with Honours) and a PhD in virology from the University of Adelaide before moving to Stanford University (USA) where he trained as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Stanford University Medical Center in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He returned to Australia as a Rolf Edgar Lake Fellow and established an independent research group in 2000.

He is a Professor of Virology and is the Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Theme Leader within the School of Medical Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. His research laboratory is located in the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney Camperdown Campus, where his team focusses on understanding how human herpesviruses cause disease and how they manipulate the host immune response. He also is coordinator and teaches several undergraduate and postgraduate courses on medical virology.