Farhid Hemmatzadeh is a virologist at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia. He has over 20 years of experience in research and teaching in the field of animal viral diseases, including paramyxoviruses, herpesviruses, pestiviruses, retroviruses, coronaviruses, parvoviruses, and influenza viruses. In the last 15 years following the pandemic of highly pathogenic influenza viruses in Southeast Asia, Dr. Farhid has been involved in the research, development, and assessment of diagnostic tests and vaccination strategies for avian influenza. These strategies required a wide range of molecular techniques and bioinformatics analytical approaches, including molecular cloning, recombinant protein technology, recombinant monoclonal antibodies, bacteriophage display systems, and DNA vaccines. Since 2010, Dr. Farhid has established a well-equipped virology/molecular biology lab at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and obtained multiple research grants from national and international sources. Dr. Hemmatzadeh has supervised 18 PhD projects and led more than 10 national and international collaborations in the fields of animal viral diseases and vaccine development. Farhid has published more than 120 papers in scientific journals, including four papers in the highest-ranking journals in the biomedical science field. His collaboration work on the development of a KoRV recombinant vaccine has been published at the Nature Vaccine (NPJ).
