Professor Christina Mitchell

Head, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University

Professor Christina Mitchell trained as a physician/scientist specialising in clinical haematology.  She received her medical training from Melbourne University and consultant training in haematology at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.  Her advanced clinical training in haematology included a PhD characterising the natural anticoagulants protein C and protein S.  Her post-doctoral studies were undertaken in the field of intracellular signalling in Professor Phil Majerus' laboratory at Washington University Medical School, St Louis, USA. 

In 199, Professor Mitchell returned to Australia and became an independent investigator at the Department of Medicine, Box Hill Hospital.  In 1999, she was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University and, in June 2006, was appointed Head of School of Biomedical Sciences.  Professor Mitchell is a member of the scientific committee for the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria (2001-2007), the NHMRC Research Fellowship Committee to 2006, and a member of the Victorian State Government Science and Biotechnology Advisory Committee.