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Our people-our expertise: Associate Professor David Whiley

Our people-our expertise

Associate Professor David Whiley

Qualifications | Research interests | Publications | Presentations | Awards | Grants and funding | Memberships / Affiliations

Dr David Whiley is a Senior Research Scientist at Pathology Queensland, Principal Research Scientist at Public and Environmental Health Forensic and Scientific Services, Microbiology and Principal Research Fellow at the UQ Centre for Clinical Research.

He has over 240 publications to date, and has been Clinical Investigator on numerous research grants, including grants awarded from NHRMC, ARC and The Children's Hospital Foundation.

David is passionate about mentoring staff, leveraging external funding and working with research partners to enhance the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in Queensland and elsewhere.

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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Applied Science, Queensland University of Technology
  • Bachelor of Laws, Queensland University of Technology
  • Graduate Certificate in Law, Queensland University of Technology
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests and expertise

David's research focuses on rapid diagnostics, including developing rapid assays, for detecting antimicrobial resistance to directly inform patient treatment.

Publications / Grants and funding

A current list of publications, as well as grants and funding awarded to research projects, is available on David's researcher profile at The University of Queensland:

http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/7597

Memberships / Affiliations

 

Awards

  • Researcher of the Year, UQ Centre for Clinical Research Directors Awards (2020)
  • Mid-career Researcher of the Year, UQ Centre for Clinical Research Directors Awards (2019)
  • The Australian Society for Microbiology Lyn Gilbert Award for Diagnostics (2017)
  • Mid-career Research of the Year for Lab/Basic Science: PA Hospital Symposium (2017)
  • The Australian Society for Microbiology BioMerieux identifying Resistance Aware (2015)

 

Associate Professor David Whiley
Senior Research Scientist
Pathology Queensland, Microbiology
email: david.whiley@health.qld.gov.au / d.whiley@uq.edu.au

phone: +61 7 3346 5053