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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 51| June 2001


The Biomedical Revolution: What Might We Become?

Prof. Peter Doherty AC

This year’s prestigious Kenneth Myer Lecture will be delivered on 8 August by the eminent Australian immunologist Professor Peter Doherty AC, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1996.

Professor Doherty works in both the United States and Australia and is well acquainted with the controversial aspects of the ‘biomedical revolution’. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Experimental Pathology at the Australian National University’s School John Curtin School of Medical Research from 1982 to 1988 and has held the Michael F. Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research at St Jude’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee since that date. His awards are numerous and include Australian of the Year 1997 and being named as one of Australia’s 100 Living National Treasures.

The Kenneth Myer Lecture series began in 1990 as a major annual event for the Friends of the National Library of Australia. The lecture was named for Kenneth Baillieu Myer, AC who was Chairman of the National Library’s Council from 1974 to 1982 and a long-time friend of the Library. He saw the lecture as an opportunity for a distinguished Australian to make a statement about an important contemporary issue in the public domain.

Among those who have delivered the lecture in the past are the Hon. E.G. Whitlam, Dr. H.C. Coombs, Elizabeth Reid, Professor Emeritus John Mulvaney and Sir Gustav Nossal.

This year the lecture returns to Canberra for the Library’s centenary year. Following tradition, a reception will be held in the Library foyer at the conclusion of the lecture for all who attend.
—Lee Kirwan

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