Background

Professor Suzanne Crowe AM retired from Burnet Institute in 2018 following a stellar 30+ year career as a clinical researcher.

Suzanne was an integral part of Burnet’s development as a leading HIV research organisation and held many leadership roles including Program Director, Healthy Ageing and Head of the Centre for Virology. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2011 in recognition of her services to medical research in HIV/AIDS medicine and infectious diseases as an academic, clinician and researcher, and to professional associations.

Appointments

• 2017-18: Program Director, Expansion Programs (Healthy Ageing), Burnet Institute
• 2013-18: Associate Director (Clinical Research), Burnet Institute, Victoria, Australia
• 2008-2013: Head, Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Victoria, Australia
• 2008-2018: Head, WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for HIV Resistance, Burnet Institute,Australia
• 2002-2018: NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
• 1999-2018: Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases (Personal Chair), Monash University, Victoria, Australia
• 1994-2018: Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Victoria, Australia
• 1992-2017: Head, Clinical Research Laboratory, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Victoria, Australia
• 1989-2011: Head, Pathogenesis and Clinical Research, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Australia
• 1989-2017: Head, Flow Cytometry Laboratory, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Australia

Awards

• 2011: British Medical Association Book Award for Kucers, The Use of Antibiotics, Sixth Edition. Eds Grayson, Crowe, McCarthy, Mills, Muton, Norby, Paterson, Pfaller
• 2011: Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
• 2008: Priscilla Kincaid Smith Medal, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• 2007: Member ‘Faculty of 1000’ Medicine, Medicine Reports Ltd (Science Navigation Group) United Kingdom
• 2006: Inaugural Frank Fenner Award, Burnet Institute, Melbourne.
• 2005: Life time Achievement Award, 5th International Conference on AIDS, India
• 1997: Royal Australian College of Physicians, The Macquarie Bank Travelling Fellowship.
• 1997: Inaugural Award for Outstanding Past Pupil of Genazzano College
• 1994-1996: Commonwealth AIDS Research Grants Career Award
• 1993: Society for Leukocyte Biology Award for International Advancement of the Science of AIDS
• 1991: Glaxo Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases
• 1989-1993: Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship
• 1988: Fogarty Travelling Fellowship (to attend IV Int Conf on AIDS), Stockholm
• 1988: Beecham Research Award (Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• 1987: International Award for AIDS Research (World Federation of Contraception/Health)
• 1986-88: Harkness Foundation Fellowship
• 1986: Merck, Sharp and Dohme Travelling Scholarship
• 1979: Mead-Johnson Prize for Paediatrics
• 1977: Jean C Tolhurst Memorial Prize for Microbiology

Publications (2)

2019 (2)

• Inflammatory and immunometabolic consequences of gut dysfunction in HIV: Parallels with IBD and implications for reservoir persistence and non-AIDS comorbidities.
  Alzahrani J, Hussain T, Simar D, Palchaudhuri R, Abdel-Mohsen M, Crowe SM, Mbogo GW, Palmer CS
  EBioMedicine. 2019 Jul; 46:522-531
• Clinical outcomes of a cohort of migrants and citizens living with human immunodeficiency virus in Botswana: implications for Joint United Nation Program on HIV and AIDS 90-90-90 targets.
  Marukutira T, Yin D, Cressman L, Kariuki R, Malone B, Spelman T, Mawandia S, Ledikwe JH, Semo BW, Crowe S, Stoove M, Hellard M, Dickinson D
  Medicine. 2019 Jun; 98(23):e15994

News Articles (37)

2018 (3)

• Tributes flow for Professors Mills and Crowe
• New qDOS Lab opens new pathways to market
• Farewell to stellar physician, researcher and mentor at Burnet

2017 (3)

• Vital HIV test now a reality
• Cancer drug found to block HIV
• Addressing HIV drug resistance in Papua New Guinea

2016 (3)

• AIDS Care honour for Suzanne Crowe
• Janet Gare a PNG HIV research pioneer
• Towards an HIV Cure 2016: global strategy released

2015 (5)

• 2015 in Review: January - June
• A gift in your Will can create a healthier world
• Call for greater innovation in HIV diagnostics at IAS 2015
• Fellowships for Burnet excellence
• Research pinpoints TB resistance

2014 (5)

• iCRL's focus on blood spots
• Special HIV edition of IMPACT out now!
• Burnet honours student awarded John Monash Scholarship
• Supporting Emerging HIV Scientists Appeal
• Burnet receives grant to rollout revolutionary HIV test

2013 (7)

• Burnet launches Campaign to STOP TB
• Centre for International Health receives first-ever NHMRC grant
• Congratulations to Burnet's NHMRC grant recipients
• Suzanne Crowe: a dame for all reasons
• Burnet scientist wins Mollie Holman Medal
• Burnet celebrates International Women's Day
• New Horizons: CD4 test on the frontline

2012 (9)

• iCRL - taking HIV training where it is needed most
• Burnet research identifies new way of fighting HIV
• Burnet NHMRC grants announcement
• Burnet CD4 Test wins Australian Life Science Innovations Award
• Six years in the making: CD4 Test officially launched!
• Burnet's scientists join world leaders at AIDS 2012 Conference
• HIV infected people now facing early ageing diseases
• Project nominated for “Saving Lives at Birth” Award
• Millions to have access to low-cost HIV test by 2013

2011 (2)

• Burnet staff and donors recognised at Excellence Awards
• AM honours awarded to Professor Suzanne Crowe, Alastair Lucas and Natasha Stott Despoja