Damon Eisen

I graduated in Medicine at University of Melbourne then did a University of Melbourne MD; ‘Polymorphic Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface antigens: temporal patterns of infection, complex genotype analysis and intragenic recombination.’ This was supervised by two outstanding malaria researchers in Ross Coppel and Alan Saul.

In my roles as Director of Clinical Research at Townsville Hospital and Professor of Medicine at JCU, I will be a focal point for developing interactions between laboratory based and clinician researchers. This will build up clinical research leading to substantial opportunities for collaborations in discovery medicine.

My own research involves clinical and laboratory investigations on the role of aspirin in prevention of sepsis as well as interrogating possible treatment for vascular disease by manipulating the lectin complement pathway.

I am working to build a large relational patient outcomes data base using the information contained in Queensland Health data sets. This project is a priority objective of the Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre. We are working towards including the five Hospital and Health Services of Northern Australia in this project.