Pamela Russell

Pamela Russell is an Australian immunologist.

Current position

Education and training

Prof Russell trained in immunology at Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, where she obtained an MSc with Sir Macfarlane Burnet. Subsequently Prof Russel completed a PhD with Sir Gustav Nossal, on studies of autoimmune diseases.

Russell's postdoctoral training was at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, and then she moved to Sydney to take up a postdoctoral position at The Kolling Institute of Medical Research.

Professor Pamela Russell joined the APCRC – Q in 2009[2]

Research

Russell's focus of the work at the Kolling Institute was on autoimmunity, specifically Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE),[3] but also some related work in rheumatoid arthritis and in ankylosing spondylitis and its association with HLAB27.[4][5]

In 1984, Prof Russell changed her research focus to cancer and, with Dr Derek Raghavan, established the Urological Cancer Research Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital/University of Sydney. Prof Russell then directed the Oncology Research Centre (ORC), Prince of Wales Hospital from 1992 to 2010, as conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Russell then moved to her current position in Queensland, QUT.

Awards

Awards[1]

  • 2010 Inaugural Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia Prize and Lecture for Outstanding Excellence
  • 2010 Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia's Researcher of the year
  • 2009 Made Life Member, Australasian Gene Therapy Society
  • 2009 Alban Gee Prize for best poster presentation at USANZ
  • 2007 Member of the year, listed in Madison's Who's Who
  • 2006 Made Honorary Life Member, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
  • 2006 Awarded prize for outstanding alumni of Kolling Institute of Medical Research (75th Jubilee)
  • 2005 Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, USA
  • 2003-2005 Listed in Who's Who, Australia
  • 2003 Platinum Nomination for the CSIRO Chairman's medal. Gene Therapy: A new approach for treating prostate cancer
  • 2003 AM for outstanding contributions to prostate and bladder cancer research
  • 1962 Dunlop Rubber prize for Biochemistry
  • 1960 Commonwealth Scholarship

References

  1. 1 2 "Pamela Russell — Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre - Queensland". www.australianprostatecentre.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Professor Pamela Russell — Prostate Cancer Collaborative Research Alliance". www.aus-canprostatealliance.org.
  3. ↑ Russell, Pamela J., and Alfred D. Steinberg. "Studies of peritoneal macrophage function in mice with systemic lupus erythematosus: Depressed phagocytosis of opsonized sheep erythrocytes in vitro." Clinical immunology and immunopathology 27, no. 3 (1983): 387-402.
  4. ↑ Cameron, Fiona H., Pamela J. Russell, Joan F. Easter, Denis Wakefield, and Lyn March. "Failure Of klebsiella pneumoniae antibodies to cross‐react with peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with ankylosing spondylitis." Arthritis & Rheumatism 30, no. 3 (1987): 300-305.
  5. ↑ Cameron, Fiona H., Pamela J. Russell, John Sullivan, and Andrew F. Geczy. "Is a Klebsiella plasmid involved in the aetiology of ankylosing spondylitis in HLA-B27-positive individuals?." Molecular Immunology 20, no. 5 (1983): 563-566.
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