Professor Sue Serjeantson AO
was appointed Executive Secretary of the Australian Academy of Science in April 2001. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain, a Visitor to the Cooperative Research Centre for the Discovery of Genes for Common Human Diseases, and is the immediate past President of FASTS, the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies.

Her research interests have focused on human genetics - at the University of Hawaii, where she obtained her PhD, and then at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research.

Professor Sue Serjeantson, November 1997
Photo: Bob Cooper, ANU Reporter

Sue joined the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1976.

Professor Serjeantson's work in molecular genetics and in improving the outcome of organ transplantation, have been recognised by the National Clunies-Ross Award for Science and Technology, the Ruth Sanger Medal and, more recently, by the Order of Australia.

From 1994-97 Sue was Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, ANU.

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Professor Sue Serjeantson receives the Order of Australia General Division at a ceremony at Government House on 6 October 2000.

Photo: Kym Smith, The Canberra Times
(Used with permission)