Internationally renowned malaria researcher Professor Alan Cowman was awarded one of the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) top honours overnight, receiving the 2011 Research Fellowship Achievement Award.The award recognises the top ranked researcher in the NHMRC Research Fellowship applications for 2011. Professor Cowman recieved the award at the NHMRC's 75th Anniversary Synposium gala dinner held last night in Canberra.
Professor Cowman is head of the institute's infestion and immunity division, and a fellow of the NHMRC, Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science. For more than 30 years he has studied the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which causes the most deadly form of malaria in humans.
