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Professor James Whisstock

Young, groundbreaking and inspiring

6 June 2008

Professor James Whisstock

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Professor James Whisstock is the multi-award-winning research head of Monash University’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Engineering, and an inspiration to countless PhD students who have gone on to win awards in their own right.

Here he talks about his own groundbreaking discoveries, what inspires him to be a medical researcher and what happens when the knowledge era meets biology.

This podcast was recorded the night James won the prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award for Health and Medical Research, which was sponsored by the NHMRC.

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