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Penny, Ronald (1936 - )

Physician and Immunologist

Ronald Penny is a clinical immunologist who was the inaugural Director of St Vincent's Hospital's Centre for Immunology in Sydney. The Centre was formed from Penny’s Clinical Immunology Unit at the at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital – the first to be established in New South Wales. In 1982 the Centre became the first to identify Australia’s first case of HIV-AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Since then Penny has been a frontrunner in AIDS research in Australia.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1960 Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Sydney
1960s Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of New South Wales
1965 Began specialising in immunology
1979 Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of New South Wales
1983 - Inaugural Director of St Vincent's Hospital's Centre for Immunology in Sydney
1985 Established Australia's first AIDS unit, St Vincent's Hospital
1988 - Personal Chair in Clinical Immunology at the University of New South Wales
1993 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

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Prepared by: Annette Alafaci
Created: 11 September 2006
Modified: 29 January 2007

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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