Professor Ross McKinnon

Welcome to my homepage. I am a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor in the College of Medicine and Public Health. I was previously Foundation Director of the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Dean (Research) and Cancer Council Beat Cancer Professor. A Flinders School of Medicine PhD graduate, I joined Flinders as Inaugural Director of the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer in 2011 after 16 years with UniSA. At UniSA, I was the Inaugural Director of the Sansom Institute (2005-2009), Associate Head (Research) of the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and Director, Centre for Pharmaceutical Research (spun out as CPR Pharma). I am an academic pharmacist with broad research interests in pharmacology, pharmaceutical biotechnology and oncology. I am a co-inventor of patents relating to cancer chemoprevention (PharmaQest) and the discovery of novel anti-inflammatory compounds. I am a Board Member of Therapeutic Innovation Australia,having provided the original vision for its facilitated therapeutic development pathways (now an NCRIS capability). I am a former Vice-President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) (two terms), which represents more than four million pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists globally. I was elected to the position of Chair, FIP Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2020. I am a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the International Pharmaceutical Federation.