Dr Robert Andrew Cuthbertson AO has over 35 years of experience in medical research and biotech development with large biopharmaceutical companies and medical organisations. He also has experience on company boards as a non-executive director.
Dr Cuthbertson joined CSL in April 1997 as the director of research before becoming chief scientific officer and R&D director in 2000, and a senior advisor to the chief executive. Prior to CSL, he was a senior scientist at Genentech Inc, a biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicine for people with life-threatening diseases.
In 2016, Dr Cuthbertson was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medical science, particularly through the development and delivery of innovative biotherapies to assist public health, and to professional research organisations.
He was also appointed Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne, a director at the Centre of Eye Research Australia and the Grattan Institute.