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Professor Warwick Britton AO FAHMS is the Bosch Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology in the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. He holds the degrees of PhD, MB BS, and BSc(Med). As Emeritus Professor, he heads the Tuberculosis Research Program and the Britton Laboratory at the Centenary Institute. His research focuses on the immunology of tuberculosis and leprosy, utilizing aerosol infection models in genetically modified mice to study cellular and cytokine responses, develop subunit and recombinant BCG vaccines, and identify novel drug targets such as secreted enzymes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He has a longstanding interest in the epidemiology and immunology of asthma, establishing a childhood asthma cohort in 1982, and participates in collaborative TB control programs in Vietnam.

Britton commenced research on leprosy and tuberculosis in Nepal in 1978, establishing a laboratory there in 1986. He returned to Australia in 1990 as Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, becoming Bosch Professor of Medicine in 2002 and Professor of Immunology in 2006. He serves as Consultant Physician in the Department of Clinical Immunology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Research Director for the Sydney Local Health District. His contributions include NHMRC funding for a Centre of Research Excellence in TB control across the Asia-Pacific and innovations in mucosal vaccines for early TB protection. Author of over 450 publications with more than 24,000 citations, notable works include 'Influence of BCG vaccine strain on the immune response and protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis' (2008) and 'Synthetic protein conjugate vaccines provide protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice' (2021). He received the Officer of the Order of Australia in 2014 for service to medical research and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.