Professor John Fraser AO
About
Prof John Fraser AO is the Queensland Spatial Biology (QSBC) Executive Director, Founder and Director of the Critical Care Research Group, Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of De Motu Cordis Pty Ltd and Founding member and Co-Chair, International ECMO Network.
John has five professorships across major Australian universities, has published over 700 peer-reviewed publications and has received more than $120 million in competitive grants. In 2018, John was awarded the Australian Society of Medical Research Clinical Research Award. Professor Fraser AO was named an Officer of the Order of Australia in January 2025 for his distinguished service to medicine as an intensive care physician and surgeon, and to global critical care research.
In 2004, John founded the Critical Care Research Group, a multi-disciplinary critical care research facility at the Prince Charles Hospital.
In Jan 2020, Fraser established the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium with A/Prof G Li Bassi & Dr J Suen. The Consortium has since facilitated the collection of millions of data points from ICU COVID-19 patients across 7 continents to aid intensivists in deciding treatment pathways for the critically ill. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) lauded the Consortium’s innovative global efforts as a quantum change in data collection in medical research.
Featured Publications
Naomi Berrell, Aaron Kilgallon, Meg L. Donovan, Clara Lawler, Chin Wee Tan, Kidane S. Embaye, Rafael Tubelleza, James Monkman, John F. Fraser, Ken O’Byrne, Ruby Huang, Arutha Kulasinghe, Proximity and metabolic activity proxies in the Tumour Microenvironment as predictors of survival in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer (HGSOC), iScience, 2025, 113572, ISSN 2589-0042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113572
Rafael Tubelleza, Aaron Kilgallon, Chin Wee Tan, James Monkman, John Fraser, Arutha Kulasinghe, PRISM: A Python Package for Interactive and Integrated Analysis of Multiplexed Tissue Microarrays, bioRxiv 2024.12.23.630034; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.23.630034
Chin Wee TanNaomi BerrellMeg L. DonovanJames MonkmanHabib SadeghiradVahid Yaghoubi NaeiJinjin ChenAlyssa RossenbloomShilah BonnettMark ConnerBrian FilanoskiChristine KangJoseph M. BeechemJohn F. FraserCatherine BarnettRahul LadwaBrett G. HughesArutha Kulasinghe; Abstract 175: Characterising head and neck tumour microenvironment using high plex spatial omics technologies and analyses. Cancer Res 15 April 2025;. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.AM2025-175
Adrian Goldsworthy, Mohd Fairuz Shiratuddin, Oystein Tronstad, John F. Fraser, Matthew Olsen, Lotti Tajouri, Kok Wai Wong,
Do virtual reality interventions cause seizures in the critically ill? A rapid review, Australian Critical Care, Volume 38, Issue 4, 2025, 101231, ISSN 1036-7314, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2025.101231.
ML Donovan, N Jhaveri, N Ma, BB Cheikh, J DeRosa, R Mihani, N Berrell, JY Suen, J Monkman, JF Fraser, A Kulasinghe. (2024). Protocol for high-plex, whole-slide imaging of human formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue using PhenoCycler-Fusion. Cell Press STAR Protocols. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103226
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Professional Memberships
Translational Research Institute – Affiliate Membership
Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation – Fellow
Affiliations
Professor Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, School of Medicine – The University of Queensland
Professor, School of Medicine – Griffith University
Adjunct Professor – QUT
Adjunct Professor – Monash University
Honorary Research Fellow – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Honorary Adjunct Professor – Bond University
Research Centre’s
Critical Care Research Group – Founder and Director
University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience – Group Leader
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