Nicholas King

Nicholas King holds a Medical degree from the University of Capetown and a PhD degree from the Australian National University. He was Professor of Immunopathology and Head of Discipline of Pathology for 18 years at The University of Sydney, as well as Founding Director of Sydney Cytometry, a University of Sydney Core Facility, and the premier Cytometry facility in Australia for 14 years. He has been Vice President and President of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA) and was Treasurer of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) for 2 terms. He is currently an Honorary Professor in Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, NSW, and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Queensland. His research into pathogen-host interactions causing immunopathology in mouse and human models has led to novel approaches to abrogate inflammation in infectious and non-infectious macrophage-mediated diseases. His major achievement has been the clear demonstration that • the pathogenesis of disease in neurotropic flavivirus infection is immunopathological • specific immunological interference in lethal virus infection can abrogate disease. He has publications inter alia in Nat Biotech, Science Transl Med, Nat Microbiol, Acta Neuropathol, J Exp Med, Immunol Rev, Trends Immunol, PLoS Pathogens and Proc Natl Acad Sci (US). His research has been funded continuously since 1988. In his career, he has taught undergraduate Pathology to approximately 20,000 students and to date supervised and graduated 48 Research Honours, 2 Masters and 32 PhD students. He currently supervises 3 PhD students and 1 Post-doctoral Fellow. He has a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at The University of Sydney and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia for his contribution to research.