Professor Christopher Goodnow
Professor

Professor Christopher Goodnow

BVSc Hons 1; BSc(Vet) Hons 1 & University Medal; PhD

Medicine & Health
School of Biomedical Sciences

Professor Chris Goodnow FAA FRS is Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, holds The Bill and Patricia Ritchie Foundation Chair as Head of the Immunogenomics Laboratory at Garvan, and is Professor and Director of the Cellular Genomics Futures Institute at UNSW Sydney. Chris trained in veterinary medicine and surgery, immunochemistry, and immunology at the University of Sydney and in DNA technology and molecular immunology at Stanford University. Chris is internationally recognised for discovering and establishing the concept of sequential tolerance checkpoints to prevent the immune system attacking “self” while fighting off “foreign” infections, laying the scientific foundation for the recent success of checkpoint inhibitor drugs to activate immune destruction of “self” cancer cells. He pioneered the use of mammalian genome sequencing to reveal how the body’s phenotype results from its’ genotype – “phenomics”. Most recently his team have used single cell genomics to discover that rogue immune cells bypass tolerance checkpoints to cause autoimmune disease through mutation pathways that also cause lymphoma and leukemia. Chris’ many awards include the AAI Pharmingen Award, Gottschalk Medal, Health Minister’s Prize, Centenary Medal, Ramaciotti Medal, GSK Award for Research Excellence, William E. Paul Award, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Phone
+61 2 9295 8120
Location
Garvan Institute of Medical Research 384 Victoria Street Darlinghurst NSW 2010

1984

Honours Class I with B.V.Sc. degree;
Honours Class I and University Medal with B.Sc.(Vet) degree

1986

NH & MRC Biomedical Research Scholarship

1989

Medical Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

1990

Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1992

Searle Scholar

1998

American Association of Immunologists Pharmingen Investigator Award

2001

Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science

2002

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

2005

Health Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Medical Research

2005

ISI Highly Cited Researcher

2006

Centenary Medal

2006

ARC Federation Fellow

2007

Ramaciotti Major Research Award

2009

Fellow of the Royal Society

2010

NHMRC Australia Fellow

2010

The Ramaciotti Medal

2012

Glaxo-Smith-Kline Award for Research Excellence

2013

Member of the US National Academy of Science

2018

William E Paul Memorial Award, The Foundation for Primary Immune Diseases.