{"id":14980,"date":"2017-08-13T05:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T05:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utter-drop.flywheelsites.com\/?post_type=hdsn_about_page&#038;p=14980"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:19:49","slug":"director-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"hdsn_about_page","link":"https:\/\/hudson.org.au\/about\/governance\/director-and-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Director and CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"block bd-grid-container bd-grid-container--white bd-grid-container--layout-2-col-33-67 w-full max-w-screen h-full\">\n    <div class=\"relative flex h-full items-center pt-20 md:pt-28 lg:pt-36 pb-20 md:pb-28 lg:pb-36 hn-container mx-auto px-5 md:px-8 xl:px-12\">\n        <div class=\"bd-grid-container__innerblocks w-full grid grid-cols-4 sm:grid-cols-12 gap-10 bd-grid-container-layout--2-col-33-67\">\n\n<div class=\"bd-grid-container__column flex w-full col-span-4 sm:col-span-4            \">\n    <div class=\"w-full wp-block-bd-grid-container-column\">\n        <div class=\"grid-container-column__innerblocks cms-content\n                            \">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hudson.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Prof-Elizabeth-Hartland-1024x1024-1-e1649770871773.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hudson.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Prof-Elizabeth-Hartland-1024x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Professor Elizabeth Hartland, Director and CEO of Hudson Institute\" class=\"wp-image-42839\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Director and CEO, Professor Elizabeth Hartland AM<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bd-grid-container__column flex w-full col-span-4 sm:col-span-8            \">\n    <div class=\"w-full wp-block-bd-grid-container-column\">\n        <div class=\"grid-container-column__innerblocks cms-content\n                            \">\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hudson-institute-s-director-and-ceo-professor-hartland-is-a-national-and-international-leader-in-the-field-of-microbiology-and-immunology-trained-as-a-microbiologist-her-work-is-focussed-on-the-cell-intrinsic-innate-immune-response-to-bacterial-infection-her-work-aims-to-combat-microbial-drug-resistance-through-the-development-of-anti-infective-agents-and-immune-enhancing-therapies-that-target-the-infection-process-rather-than-kill-the-bacterial-cell-directly\">Hudson Institute\u2019s Director and CEO, Professor Hartland is a national and international leader in the field of microbiology and immunology. Trained as a microbiologist, her work is focussed on the cell intrinsic innate immune response to bacterial infection. Her work aims to combat microbial drug resistance through the development of anti-infective agents and immune-enhancing therapies that target the infection process rather than kill the bacterial cell directly.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Hartland has held a Royal Society\/NHMRC Howard Florey Fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London and Lecturer\/Senior Lecturer positions at Monash University, Australia. She was an inaugural Australian Research Council Future Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and subsequently held the positions of Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. In 2017, she become Director and CEO of the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Head of the Department of Molecular and Translational Science at Monash University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Hartland is the author of more than 150 research publications and has received a number of awards for her research, including the Australian Society for Microbiology Fenner Research Award, Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology (FASM) and Finalist for the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases. She is the recipient of an NHMRC Investigator grant (2020-2024) to discover new targets for anti-infective therapies and NHMRC Synergy grant (2020-2024) to study the innate immune response to the human microbiome.<br>Professor Hartland jointly established the highly successful Victorian Infection and Immunity Network (VIIN), which has a membership of more than 1,000 researchers representing all major research universities and organisations in Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org.au\/researcher-profile\/elizabeth-hartland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Hartland<\/a>\u00a0is an accomplished research supervisor and mentor and has supervised 20 PhD students to completion as primary supervisor. Three of her former students have won NHMRC Early Career Fellowships and one former student, Dr Jaclyn Pearson, was awarded the 2014 University of Melbourne Chancellor\u2019s Prize for Excellence in a PhD Thesis, the 2014 Deans Award for Excellence in a PhD Thesis and the 2014 Premier\u2019s Award for Health and Medical Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/hudson.org.au\/about\/governance\/director-and-ceo\/\" style=\"color:#19425c;background-color:#f5f5f5\">View Professor Hartland&#8217;s Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Director, Professor Elizabeth Hartland, leads the Institute with the support of our scientific and support service teams, setting strategic direction, organisation objectives and leading a culture of scientific excellence and innovation.&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hudson.org.au\/about\/governance\/director-and-ceo\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":11055,"menu_order":18,"template":"","class_list":["post-14980","hdsn_about_page","type-hdsn_about_page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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