Struan sutherland biography sample
Struan sutherland biography sample
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Struan Sutherland
Australian medical researcher (1936–2002)
Struan Keith SutherlandAO (17 June 1936 – 11 January 2002) was an Australian medical researcher who developed effective antivenoms and other treatments for people bitten or stung by venomous Australian wildlife.
Early life
Sutherland was born in Sydney and grew up in Bendigo, Victoria. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1960, and served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1962 to 1965.[1]
The CSL years
In 1966, Sutherland joined the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) and was soon appointed Head of Immunology Research, a position which he held for 28 years.
The death in January 1979 of a young girl, Christine Sturges, from a funnel-web spider bite prompted Sutherland to look for a funnel-web spider antivenom.[2] Many previous researchers had failed to develop such an antivenom, but Sutherland persevered.
In January 1980, a two-year-old boy Ja