Paul Brindley (biologist)

Paul Brindley received a doctorate from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and completed post doctoral training at the NIAID's Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

He has held faculty level appointments at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, University College Dublin, Ireland, and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was the William Vincent Professor of Tropical Medicine. He was the recipient of the Scholar Award in Molecular Parasitology, Infectious Diseases Research of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2001-2006), and is a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.[2]

His current research focuses the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and NTD associated cancers. He is pursuing functional genomics and other approaches to characterize new interventions.