Ian Gust

Professor Ian D. Gust (Order of Australia) is an Australian medical virologist. He was the research and development director for CSL Limited. Since his retirement in 2008, he has been a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the University of Melbourne. His area of work is in the development of drugs and vaccines against viral diseases.

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, his "achievements in public health include roles in the development of vaccines against Hepatitis A and membership of the International Task Force for Hepatitis B Immunization. He established the National HIV reference laboratory and directed the National Health and Medical Research Council's special unit for AIDS virology. Since he retired in 2000, he has been director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Influenza and a member of the National Influenza Pandemic Planning Committee." ^[1]

Publications

Books

• Gust, Ian D., Patricia Kahn, and Wayne C. Koff. AIDS Vaccine Development: Challenges and Opportunities. Wymondham: Caister Academic Press, 2007.

Journal articles

Gust has published 205 peer-reviewed articles listed in Scopus. The most cited are:

• Gust, I.D. "Epidemiological patterns of hepatitis A in different parts of the world" (1992) Vaccine, 10 (SUPPL. 1), pp. S56-S58. Cited 119 times.
• Gust, I.D."Epidemiology of hepatitis B infection in the Western Pacific and South East Asia" (1996) Gut, 38 (SUPPL. 2), pp. S18-S23. Cited 85 times.
• Doidge, C., Gust, I., Lee, A., Buck, F., Hazell, S., Manne, U. "Therapeutic immunisation against helicobacter infection [4]" (1994) Lancet, 343 (8902), pp. 914–915. Cited 80 times.
• Russell, C.A., Jones, T.C., Barr, I.G., Cox, N.J., Garten, R.J., Gregory, V., Gust, I.D., Hampson, A.W., Hay, A.J., Hurt, A.C., De Jong, J.C., Kelso, A., Klimov, A.I., Kageyama, T., Komadina, N., Lapedes, A.S., Lin, Y.P., Mosterin, A., Obuchi, M., Odagiri, T., Osterhaus, A.D.M.E., Rimmelzwaan, G.F., Shaw, M.W., Skepner, E., Stohr, K., Tashiro, M., Fouchier, R.A.M., Smith, D.J. "The global circulation of seasonal influenza A (H3N2) viruses" (2008) Science, 320 (5874), pp. 340–346. Cited 78 times.
• Fairley, C.K., Mijch, A., Gust, I.D., Nichilson, S., Dimitrakakis, M., Lucas, C.R. "The increased risk of fatal liver disease in renal transplant patients who are hepatitis Be antigen and/or HBV DNA positive" (1991) Transplantation, 52 (3), pp. 497–500. Cited 46 times.

References

1. ^ interview by Terry Lane