Farhid Hemmatzadeh

A/Professor Farhid Hemmatzadeh is a virologist at the School of Animal & Veterinary Sciences The University of Adelaide, Australia. Farhid has over 20 years’ experience in research and teaching at the field of animal viral diseases including paramyxoviruses, herpesviruses, pestiviruses, retroviruses, parvoviruses and influenza viruses.

In the last 12 years, since the pandemic of highly pathogenic influenza viruses, Farhid has been involved in research, development and assessment of diagnostic test and the vaccination strategies for avian influenza in South East Asia especially in Indonesia.

A/Prof Hemmatzadeh has supervised a number of PhD projects and led international collaboration in the field of animal viral diseases.

May 2019