Influenza and Zoonotic Diseases

Biography

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 last 12 years since pandemic of highly pathogenic influenza viruses Farhid has been involved in research, development and assessment of diagnostic test for avian influenza in South East Asia especially in Indonesia. A/Prof Hemmatzadeh has supervised numbers of PhD project and led international collaboration in the field of avian Influenza Viruses.

Research Interest

His Research of Interest is animal viral diseases including paramyxoviruses, herpesviruses, pestiviruses, retroviruses, parvoviruses and influenza viruses