Annual ASCIA Basten Oration

The ASCIA Annual Basten Oration was initiated in 2006 by the ASCIA 2006 chair and ASCIA President (2005-2006) Dr Karl Baumgart, who also presented Professor Antony Basten AO with his portrait (painted by Dr Gillian Dunlop) at the ASCIA 2006 Conference.

The Basten Oration has been held at each ASCIA Annual Conference since then, in recognition of Professor Basten's pioneering work in immunology for more than 40 years, which continues today.

As well as Professor Basten's immense contribution to the discipline of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, he was also the founding President of ASCIA and Chairman of the highly successful XVII International Congress of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (now known as the World Allergy Congress) held in Sydney in the year 2000. 

Basten Orations 2006-2017  

2017 - Auckland, New Zealand

Dr Penny Fitzharris

The changing faces of Clinical Immunology and Allergy 

 

 

2016 - Gold Coast, Queensland

Dr Graham Solley

Early advances in IgE antibody and eosinophil function 

 

  

2015 - Adelaide, South Australia

Professor Robert Heddle

Insect venom allergy: important lessons from local oddities 

 

  

2014 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Professor James McCluskey

T cell recognition of vitamin metabolites 

 

  

2013 - Perth, Western Australia

Professor Susan Prescott

Allergy and the NCD pandemic; the canary in the coal mine
 

 

  

2012 - Wellington, New Zealand

Professor Innes Asher ONZM

A global perspective on allergy: are there targets for prevention?   

 

  

2011 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Professor Paul Gatenby AM

Nature and nurture: the pathogenesis of systemic vasculitis
 

 

  

2010 - Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Professor John Upham

Changing the trajectory of allergic respiratory disease
   

 

  

2009 - Adelaide, South Australia

Professor Heddy Zola

Monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry: techniques made for each other, and for Clinical Immunology   

 

  

2008 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Professor Robyn O’Hehir

Treating allergy - any progress? Twenty years of translational research in allergy 

 

  

2007 - Fremantle, Western Australia

Professor Patrick Holt

Heterogeneity in response phenotypes in atopy: Insight from studies

 

 

 Content updated January 2018