The ASCIA Annual Basten Oration has been held at ASCIA Annual Scientific Meetings since 2007. The Oration is held in recognition of Professor Antony Basten AO, for his pioneering work in immunology for more than 40 years, which continues today.

As well as Professor Basten's immense contribution to the discipline of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, he was also the founding President of ASCIA and Chairman of the highly successful XVII International Congress of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (now known as the World Allergy Congress) held in Sydney in the year 2000.

At the ASCIA 2006 Annual Scientific Meeting, Professor Basten was presented with his portrait (painted by Dr Gillian Dunlop) by the ASCIA President, Dr Karl Baumgart. At the same meeting it was confirmed that a Basten Oration would be included in the program for future ASCIA Annual Scientific Meetings.

To date, the following Basten Orations have been presented:

	2012 Professor Innes Asher ONZM A global perspective on allergy: are there targets for prevention?
	2011 Professor Paul Gatenby AM Nature and nurture: the pathogenesis of systemic vasculitis
	2010 Professor John Upham Changing the trajectory of allergic respiratory disease
	2009 Professor Heddy Zola Monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry: techniques made for each other, and for Clinical Immunology
	2008 Professor Robyn O’Hehir Treating allergy - any progress? Twenty years of translational research in allergy
	2007 Professor Patrick Holt Heterogeneity in response phenotypes in atopy: Insight from studies

 Content updated September 2012