Ian Frazer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ian Frazer
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Jan 6, 1953(1953-01-06)
Age	71
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ian Frazer Biography

Ian Frazer is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on January 6, 1953 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Ian Hector Frazer AC, born 6 January 1953 in Australia, is an Australian immunologist and founder of the Translational Research Institute (Australia). Jian Zhou and Frazer developed the technology that is used to prevent cervical cancer from occurring at the University of Queensland. Gardasil and Cervarix are the names of the vaccine. It was the second vaccine that prevents cancer and the first vaccine to prevent it. Parallel to this, researchers at the National Cancer Institute and Georgetown University contributed to the development of the cervical cancer vaccine.

He was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland in 1985, and had the opportunity to start his own research lab. He continued his research on HPV in men at the Lions Human Immunology Laboratories, where he also contributed to HIV research. Frazer was also a professor at the university. He ran diagnostic tests at Princess Alexandra Hospital. In 1988, he received his Doctor of Medicine degree.

Later in 1991 the research was presented at a US scientific meeting, and Frazer became Director of the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research at the University of Queensland (later renamed The Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, where he held a personal chair as director). After three years in design, Gardasil went into testing, and Frazer became a Professor in the University’s Department of Medicine. In 1998 Frazer completed the first human trials for Gardasil, and became an Australian citizen.

In 1999 Frazer received the Australian Biotechnology Award, and has since received more than twenty awards for science:

Frazer was the first holder of the Queensland Government Smart State premier’s fellowship worth $2.5million over five years. Since 1985, he has been receiving continuous funding from the National Health and Medical Research Councils (NHMRC), mostly for research related to papilloma virus or tumor immunology. He currently serves as a Chief Investigator for a NHMRC program grant grant and a NHMRC/Wellcome grant grant grant. Together, they are worth more than 2 million dollars a year.

Ian Frazer Net Worth

Ian Frazer is one of the richest Engineer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ian Frazer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Frazer was educated at Robert Gordon’s College, an Aberdeen private school. Because physics had fewer research opportunities than physics, Frazer chose medicine and received his Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Medicine, and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Edinburgh in 1974, 1977, respectively. He met Caroline during this period and they were married in 1976. He spent 1978-1979 at the Edinburgh Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and Haddington’s Roodlands General Hospital.

After being headhunted at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research by Dr. Ian Mackay to study viral immunology, Frazer immigrated to Melbourne in 1980/81. He discovered in 1981 that the immunodeficiency that afflicted homosexuals in San Francisco was also present in gay men. This led him to conclude that HIV was the cause. Another sexually transmitted virus, the human papillomavirus (HPV), was also discovered to have a surprising effect. It seemed to cause precancerous cells.

On a 1989 sabbatical he met virologist Jian Zhou, and the two considered the problem of developing a vaccine for HPV – a virus that cannot be cultured without living tissue. Frazer convinced Zhou to join him, and in 1990 they began to use molecular biology to synthesize particles in vitro that could mimic the virus. In March 1991 Zhou’s wife and fellow researcher, Xiao-Yi Sun, assembled by Zhou’s instructions two proteins into a virus-like particle (VLP), resembling the HPV shell, from which HPV vaccine would ultimately be made. (The vaccine completely protects unexposed women against four HPV strains responsible for 70% of cervical cancers, which kill about 250,000 women annually.) Frazer and Zhou filed a provisional patent in June 1991 and began work on developing the vaccine within UQ. To finance clinical trials, Australian medical company CSL, and later Merck, were sold partial patents. (CSL has the exclusive license to sell Gardasil in New Zealand and Australia, Merck the license elsewhere.) GlaxoSmithKline independently used the same VLP- approach to develop Cervarix, under a later US patent, licensing Frazer’s intellectual property in 2005.

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US. 7,476,389, titled “Papilloma Virus Vaccines”, was granted to co-inventors Ian Frazer and Jian Zhou (posthumously) on 13 January 2009. Its U.S. application was filed on 19 January 1994, but claimed priority under a 20 July 1992 PCT filing to the date of an initial [AU] Australian patent application filed on 19 July 1991.

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Ian Ranked on the list of most popular Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ian Frazer celebrates birthday on January 6 of every year.

Since February 2011, Frazer has been the CEO and Director of Research at the Translational Research Institute, a joint initiative of The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, the Mater Medical Research Institute and the Princess Alexandra Hospital. He is researching immunoregulation and immunotherapeutic vaccines, supported by several US and Australian research funding bodies. He is working on a VLP-based vaccine against hepatitis C, and is researching extensions to the VLP production technology for dengue fever and Japanese encephalitis vaccines. Frazer expects (50% effective) HIV vaccines to be available by 2028. He is already overseeing trials of the first vaccine for skin cancer (the Squamous cancer, caused by HPV) which might be ready before 2020.

What did Ian Frazer discover?

Ian Frazer, (born January 6, 1953, Glasgow, Scotland), Scottish-born Australian immunologist, whose research led to the development of a vaccine against the strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause most cervical cancers.

Does Ian Frazer have kids?

Ian Frazer lives in Brisbane, Australia with his wife Caroline. As of 2010, two of his sons are medical students and the third is a veterinary scientist.

What did Ian Frazer study?

Professor Ian Frazer was born in 1953 in Glasgow, Scotland, into an academic family. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and trained as a renal physician and clinical immunologist.

Does HPV go away completely?

In most cases, your body can produce antibodies against the virus and clear the virus within one to two years. Most strains of HPV go away permanently without treatment. Because of this, it isn’t uncommon to contract and clear the virus completely without ever knowing that you had it.

Who discovered the HPV vaccine?

Richard Schlegel