ProfessorChris Jackson

Career summary

2014-present Professor, Medical School, University of Sydney

2006-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney

1999-present Director, Sutton Arthritis Research Laboratories,

Institute of Bone and Joint Research,

Kolling Institute, University of Sydney

1995-2003 Henry Langley Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney

1998-1999 Scientific Director, Sutton Arthritis Research Laboratories

1990-1998 Laboratory Manager, Sutton Rheumatism Research Laboratories

1993-1995 Research Fellow, Sutton Rheumatism Research Laboratories

1992: PhD University of Sydney

Recent research support as CI

· Four National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants totalling $2.4 million(three as Principal Investigator) in past 7 years; 9 NHMRC grants overall

· Health Research Council NZ, Program grant, “Exploiting the therapeutic potential of viruses”, A Mercer with 9 CIs from NZ, USA and Australiaincl. C Jackson, NZ$5 million awarded 26/06/13. My role to provide expertise in pre-clinical and clinical trials in wound healing.

· JDRF International Innovative grant as CIA, 2009, US$102,000

· Korea National Research Foundation “Role of APC in treatment of BP-induced osteonecrosis of the jaw”, S Park, P Sambrook and C Jackson, E00019, A$550K, 2010-13. My role to perform cellular mechanistic studies e.g. osteoblasts. This grant resulted in 6 publications

· Ray and Pam Robinson award from Arthritis Australia in 2009 and 2013, $40,000 each

Patents and Industry

· Granted patents: “Treatment and Composition for Wound Healing” Inventors: C Jackson, P Sambrook 2002302192 Australia 2007; 4351041 Japan 2009; EP1404 412 B1 Europe 2012; 8728512 USA.

· PCT Pending 2013286812 Australia; 2,877,745 Canada; 201380034024 China; 13812528.1 Europe; 2015-518732 Japan; 10-2015-7002889 South Korea; 14/409,215 USA plus other countries :“Treatment for inflammatory skin disorders” Inventors: C Jackson, M Xue

· Provisional converted 2014901397Australia; PCT/AU2014/050323 World: “An agent that prevents/treats the abnormal cutaneous scaring”. Inventors: C Jackson, M Xue

· PCT filed 2014: “A treatmentfor bone defects” Inventors: C Jackson, K Shen, A Schindeler, D Little, M Xue and S-Y Park

· Provisional 2014902900 converted Australia; PCT/AU2015/050177 World: “Use of APC analogue for wound healing”. Inventors: C Jackson, M Xue

· Co-Founder of Bioatrix, a company dedicated to finding new treatments for skin diseases

· Bioatrix was acquired by the US company, ZZ-Biotech, in Dec 2015. ZZ-Biotech will begin a trial of 3K3A-APC in diabetic wounds in 2016

· Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Bioatrix, which includes prominent medical researchers such as Professor Sir Marc Feldmann, University of Oxford.

Recent invitations to speak, international committees

· · FASEB Scientific Conference on “Proteases in Hemostatis and Vascular Biology”, Keystone, Colorado, June 2015

· International Society Thrombosis Haemostasis Conference, Milwaukee, USA, June 2014

· Inaugural International session, Wound Healing Society, SAWC Spring Symposium on Advanced Wound Care, Orlando, USA, April 2014

· 25^th European Congress of Pathology, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013

· Current society memberships: Australian Rheumatology Association, Int. Soc. Thrombosis Haemostasis, AWTRS, ANZMS.

Supervision and mentoring

Has supervised 20 PhD students, 15 to graduation and 4 current and mentored 7 Early- and Mid-Career post-doctoral fellows.

Peer review and Societies

· NHMRC Grant Review Panel member for project grants (2006, 2007, 2011)

· NHMRC Grant Review Panel for Early Career Fellowships (2009, 2015, 2016)

· Editorial board member for 5 journals incl. Pathobiology, Frontiers of Bioscience.

· Current Vice-President, Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society (AWTRS, 2012-2014)

· Past President, Australian and New Zealand Microcirculation Society (ANZMS, 2005-7)

· Session organiser or Committee Member for 15 conferences

· Current society memberships: Australian Rheumatology Association, Int. Soc. Thrombosis Haemostasis, AWTRS, ANZMS.