Distinguished scientist to provide high-level advice and training to Australian veterinary medicine authority
Press release
14 January 2009
Professor Glenn Browning, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Veterinary Science and Professor in Veterinary Microbiology, has been appointed as an Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) Science Fellow.
APVMA Science Fellows are distinguished and internationally renowned scientists appointed to provide high-level independent scientific advice to the authority, assist with the training of APVMA staff and enhance regulatory science quality at the APVMA.
Professor Browning said: “It is a great honour to be selected as a Science Fellow for the APVMA as they play a vital role evaluating the safety and efficacy of the medicines used by veterinarians and their clients in both companion and production animals.”
“I’m looking forward to working with APVMA staff in the field of veterinary vaccinology, and working with the other fellows to advance veterinary regulatory science in Australia.”
Professor Browning joins a team of three new Science Fellows appointed by the APVMA, each with their own area of expertise. He joins Professors Mary Barton, Colin Chapman and Nick Sangster, along with returning Science Fellows Professors Jock McLean and Terry O’Neill and Dr Dieter Arnold.
Professor Browning’s area of expertise lies in bacterial and viral diseases of animals, with his research interests including treatment, prevention, diagnosis and control of bacterial and viral diseases of animals, animal vaccines and epidemiology. He was an editor of Avian Pathology, the highest ranked journal in the avian sciences, between 1997 and 2008 and was an associate editor of Microbiology, one of the world’s leading microbiological journals, from 1996 to 2004.
For further information please contact the Marketing Manager, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne, Tel: 8344 7844 or email: vet-communications@unimelb.edu.au