Editing Gustav Nossal (section)

==Career==
Following the retirement of Macfarlane Burnet in 1965, at the age of 35 Nossal became director of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, a position that he kept until 1996.  In parallel, he was Professor of Medical Biology at the [[University of Melbourne]]. Nossal's research was in fundamental [[immunology]], in the field of "antibody formation and immunological tolerance".<ref name="spark">{{cite web |title=Biographical entry&nbsp;— Nossal, Gustav Joseph Victor (1931 – ) |publisher=Bright Sparcs |url=http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000678b.htm |access-date=8 March 2008}}</ref> He has written five books and 530 scientific articles in this and related fields.

Nossal has been President (1970-1973) of the 30,000-member world body of immunology, the [[International Union of Immunological Societies]]; President of the [[Australian Academy of Science]] (1994-1998); a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council ([[PMSEIC]]) (1989 to 1998); and Chairman of the [[Victorian Health Promotion Foundation]] (1987-1996). He has been chairman of the committee overseeing the [[World Health Organization]]'s Vaccines and Biologicals Program (1993-2002) and Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Council of the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation#Global health division|Children's Vaccine Program]] (1998-2003). He was Deputy Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation from 1998 to 2000. He was Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Global Foundation,<ref name="foundation">{{cite web |title=Our Members: Office bearers |publisher=The Global Foundation |url=http://www.globalfoundation.org.au/about/members.html |access-date=7 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309222121/http://www.globalfoundation.org.au/about/members.html |archive-date=9 March 2008 }}</ref> The purpose of the foundation was to ''"encourage Australia’s sustainable national development in a global context."'' Sir Gustav is a member of the Patrons Council of the [[Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria]] and of the advisory board of the [[Health Impact Fund]].