Professor Brandon Wainwright

Researcher biography
Professor Wainwright is Director of UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience, which is recognised nationally and internationally as one of Australia's leading life sciences research institutes. As Director, Professor Wainwright is responsible for advancing the institute's research initiatives, strengthening the institute's global connections, and leading IMB's 500 scientists, postgraduate students and support staff with an annual budget of $60 million. The institute's mission is to advance scientific knowledge and deliver new health and industry applications.
Professor Wainwright completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at The University of Adelaide, after which he secured a postdoctoral fellowship with St Mary's Hospital at Imperial College London. During his six years at Imperial he worked on the first human genome project and also became a Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow. He returned to Australia in 1990 to join UQ's Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology (now IMB).
Professor Wainwright leads his own IMB laboratory, is chair of the Queensland Institutes of Health, and serves on the boards of the Australian Genome Research Facility and Life Sciences Queensland, and a number of national and international scientific review committees.