Background

Professor Suzanne Crowe AO 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 an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in June 2020 for her distinguished service to health and aged care administration, and to clinical governance, biomedical research and education. She was previously 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

• 2020: Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
• 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

Projects (1)

Current (1)

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  Ageing Well with HIV

Publications (8)

2023 (1)

• The effect of the Xpert HIV-1 Qual test on early infant diagnosis of HIV in Myanmar and Papua New Guinea: a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, stepped-wedge, open-label trial.
  Mohamed Y, Htay H, Gare J, Vallely AJB, Kelly-Hanku A, Yee WL, Agius PA, Badman SG, Pham MD, Nightingale C, Chen XS, Kombati Z, Koata A, Munnull G, Silim S, Thein W, Zaw TM, Kyaw LL, Stoové M, Crowe SM, Anderson D, Tin HH, Luchters S
  Lancet HIV. 2023 Mar; Epub ahead of print

2022 (2)

• Viral load monitoring for people living with HIV in the era of test and treat: progress made and challenges ahead - a systematic review.
  Pham MD, Nguyen HV, Anderson D, Crowe S, Luchters S
  BMC Public Health. 2022 Jun; 22(1):1203
• A profile of the Visitect(R) CD4 and Visitect(R) CD4 advanced disease for management of people living with HIV.
  Pham MD, Stoove M, Crowe S, Luchters S, Anderson D`
  Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2022 Mar; 22(3):247-252

2020 (3)

• Performance characteristics of an instrument-free point-of-care CD4 test (VISITECT(R)CD4) for use in resource-limited settings.
  Vidhyavathi V, Iqbal HS, Kanthamani K, Solomon SS, Nandagopal P, Luchters S, Pham MD, Forbes J, Crowe SM, McMurran C, Anderson DA, Balakrishnan P
  J Int Med Res. 2020 Sep; 48(9):300060520955028
• Trends in late and advanced HIV diagnoses among migrants in Australia; implications for progress on Fast-Track targets: A retrospective observational study.
  Marukutira T, Gunaratnam P, Douglass C, Jamil MS, McGregor S, Guy R, Gray RT, Spelman T, Horyniak D, Higgins N, Giele C, Crowe SM, Stoové M, Hellard M
  Medicine. 2020 Feb; 99(8):e19289
• Modelling the impact of migrants on the success of the HIV care and treatment program in Botswana.
  Marukutira T, Scott N, Kelly SL, Birungi C, Makhema JM, Crowe S, Stoové M, Hellard M
  PLoS One. 2020 Jan; 15(1):e0226422

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