ProfessorEdward Holmes

FAA, FRS

Professor Eddie Holmes is known for his work on the evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, particularly the mechanisms by which RNA viruses jump species boundaries to emerge in humans and other animals. He currently holds an NHMRC Leadership Fellowship and is Professor of Virology at the University of Sydney. He moved to the University of Sydney in 2012. He has studied the emergence and spread of such pathogens as SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, dengue virus, HIV, hepatitis C virus, myxoma virus, RHDV and Yersinia pestis. His previous appointments include Verne M. Willaman Chair in the Life Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, and Affiliate Member of the Fogarty International Centre (2005-2012), National Institutes of Health, USA. From 1999-2004 he was Fellow of New College, Oxford. In 2021 he recieved the (Australian) Prime Minister's Prize for Science and in 2023 he was awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2024 from The Royal Society. He is the author of 819 peer-reviewed papers and two books. His publications have >167,000 citations (h-index of 183; see http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Syrp1IMAAAAJ&hl=en)