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Born: Established: ca. 1952
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1967
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BiographyHistory

Ed Byrne has had a career as an academic, neurologist, and neuroscientist.

The son of a general practitioner, he was raised in northeast England before arriving in Australia at the age of fifteen. He graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1974 with a medical degree (with first-class honours). After moving to London in 1981 to complete a research fellowship in clinical neurology, he returned to Australia in 1983, aged thirty-one.

He has held a number of positions, including Professor of Experimental Neurology at the University of Melbourne; Dean of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University; Vice Provost and Executive Dean of Biomedicine at University College London; and Vice-Chancellor and President at Monash University.

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