Professor Young's election was marked at a ceremony at the Academy's recent annual meeting in Perth.
His citation reads : "Professor Paul Young, Professor of Virology at the University of Queensland, who has worked to improve the understanding, diagnosis and management of infectious diseases globally. He is recognised for his work on the dengue viruses, having developed a commercial diagnostic assay that is now the global standard for early diagnosis of dengue infection, and a patented vaccine platform technology that is about to go into clinical trials."
