Professor Christine Mitchell

Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences

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 1991, she 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 at Monash University.

Professor Mitchell is a member of the scientific committee for the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria (2001-2007), the NHMRC Research Fellowship Committee 2006 and a member of the Victorian State Government Science and Biotechnology Advisory Committee