James Paton, PhD FAA

Founding Director and inaugural Chief Scientific Officer of GPN Vaccines; and Australia’s leading authority on the pneumococcus. James was a Professor of Microbiology and the Director of the Research Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Adelaide; and was South Australian Scientist of the Year in 2017. James is a former NHMRC Australia Fellow and Senior Principal Research Fellow and he directs an internationally acclaimed team of researchers at the University of Adelaide. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the American Academy of Microbiologists. He has published over 440 research papers and in the last 12 years has raised over $36M in grants to support his research activities. James was the lead Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Grant that led to the development of the Gamma-PN vaccine and the NHMRC Development Grant that supported its final preclinical development.