Frank Gannon#
| Membership Number: | 2248 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.qimrberghofer.edu.au/about-us/governance/our-director |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - 2020 Director and CEO, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
- 2007 - 2011 Director General, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
- 1994 - 2007 Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and Senior Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), based in Heidelberg, Germany
- 1990 - 1994 Associate professor, Department of Microbiology, University College, Galway, Ireland
- 1981 - 2007 Director of the National Diagnostic Centre
- 1999 Honorary doctorate from the Josef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary
- 2008 Honorary doctorate from Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 2008 Honorary doctorate from The University of Queensland, Australia
Fields of Scholarship
- Control of Gene Expression and Epigenetics
- Estrogen Receptor as a Transcription Factor
Honours and Awards
- 1972 Medal of the Irish Biology Society
- 1989 Elected member of EMBO
- 1993 Society of Industrial Microbiology Pan Labs Award
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa was awarded by the Josef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary
- 2005 Elected member of Academia Europea
- 2006 NUI Galway Alumni Award for Natural Sciences
- 2007 Elected member of the Royal Irish Academy
- 2007 Awarded Diplome d’Honneur from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- 2008 Doctor Honoris Causa, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 2008 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- 2008 Elected Member of the Mexican Academy of Medicine
- 2009 The Sam Haughton Medal from the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland
- 2009 Elected member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2012 Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Science
- 2014 Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
