James Paton, PHD FAA

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James is a Professor of Microbiology and the Director of the Research Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Adelaide. He is Australia’s preeminent authority on the pathogenesis of S. pneumoniae 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.