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Baxter is a medical graduate who completed a PhD in immunogenetics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute under the supervision of Tom Mandel. He has worked as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and at Cambridge University, where he was a Supervisor in Pathology for Trinity College. He has been a member of the Australasian Society for Immunology since 1994 and was President of the Society from 2006-2008. Baxter was a member of the Council of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA) 2012-2015, the Council of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) 2013-2016 and is currently a member of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia (MSRA) Research Management Council. His extensive commitments to the public appreciation of science have helped promote rational discussion of the health sciences in Australia. He established the Autoimmunity Research Group at the Centenary Institute, where he worked for nine years before his appointment as Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology at James Cook University 2003-2020. Specialties: He is known internationally for his contributions to the genetics of autoimmune disease and has published pioneering work on the genetics of gastritis and the role of NKT cells in autoimmunity, and made major contributions to our understanding of gene/environment interactions in autoimmune disease.

Listed skills include Immunology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and 27 others.