S Bruce Dowton

S. Bruce Dowton MB BS MD (Syd) FACMG FRACP
S. Bruce Dowton, VC Macquarie University
Born	1956 Ivanhoe, New South Wales
Nationality	Australian
Citizenship	Australian, United States
Education	University of Sydney, Harvard Medical School
Occupation	Vice-Chancellor
Years active	2012 - present
Organization	Macquarie University
Title	Professor
Predecessor	Steven Schwartz
Website	vc.mq.edu.au

S. Bruce Dowton (born 1956) is the fifth Vice-Chancellor and the President of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is an Australian-born paediatrician, clinical geneticist, molecular biologist, researcher and academic, and has served as a senior medical executive at a range of universities, healthcare institutions and consulting organisations.

Professor Dowton was born in the far Far West region of New South Wales in the town of Ivanhoe and raised in Dubbo. Professor Dowton moved to Sydney in 1975 to commence tertiary studies. He was the first in his family to go to university.

Professor Dowton was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (with Honours) in 1980 from the University of Sydney. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Boston, where he held clinical and research fellowships in paediatrics and cell biology. He also holds a doctorate of medicine for his work in cell biology from the University of Sydney. His work as a laboratory scientist focused on regulation of the expression of genes for an important class of blood proteins.

He has published over 80 articles on a wide range of topics in peer-reviewed academic publications, and has held Visiting Professorial and External Examiner appointments at several universities including the University of Edinburgh, Colombia University in New York City, the University of Tromsø in Norway, Hong Kong University, as well as institutions in the People’s Republic of China.