Professor Catherine Sherrington
Prof Sherrington is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney. She leads the 17-person Ageing and Physical Disability Research Group within the Institute’s Musculoskeletal Division. Her research focuses on the promotion of physical activity and prevention of falls in older people and […]
Professor Philip Hogg
Phil Hogg discovered a unique mechanism of control of protein function that operates across all biological systems and lifeforms. This involves a subset of disulphide bonds thought only to act as covalent modifiers of protein structure functioning as molecular switches to allosterically regulate protein function when cleaved. He developed a novel classification scheme for disulphides […]
Professor Philip Mitchell
Philip Mitchell is an international authority in the fields of bipolar disorder and depression, with his major achievements spanning the breadth of genetics, phenomenology, treatment and epidemiology of these conditions. He has identified distinguishing clinical characteristics of bipolar depression, demonstrated specific differences in brain functioning of young people at risk to bipolar disorder, and has […]
Professor Markus Seibel
Professor Markus Seibel has been an international leader in musculoskeletal medicine for over 25 years. Covering basic, translational and clinical research, Markus has made seminal contributions to the area of skeletal physiology and pathophysiology as well as clinical management of osteoporosis. He has published over 400 scientific articles and edited six academic books. His work […]
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, and Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University researches the way care is delivered to patients and how it can be improved. He has contributed over 700 total publications and presented at international and national conferences on […]
Professor Lisa Maher
Professor Maher is a renowned public health scientist who applies both epidemiological and anthropological approaches to important public health problems – in particular hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection – including leading the first ever HCV vaccine preparedness study. Her high standing is evidenced by extensive conference invitations as well as an outstanding record of competitive […]
Professor Andrew Lloyd
Professor Andrew Lloyd AM is a distinguished infectious diseases physician scientist. He has made major contributions to clinical practice in hepatitis C infection (particularly amongst the prisoner population) and also in chronic fatigue states associated with infection and cancer. He has also made major contributions in laboratory-based studies of the pathophysiology of hepatitis C infection, […]
Professor Richard Scolyer
Professor Scolyer leads one of world’s largest histopathology consultation practices and is widely regarded as the Australasian point of reference for diagnosis of difficult pigmented skin lesions. He co-leads an award winning translational research program investigating causes, prognostic /predictive biomarkers and treatment of melanoma. He has authored >450 peer-reviewed journal publications (>14,000 citations), and according […]
Professor David Le Couteur
David Le Couteur is a geriatrician and clinical pharmacologist who was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (2016), awarded the Rand Medal, Australasian Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (2015) and Abrams award, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2013) for his contributions to geriatric pharmacology, ageing research and drug regulatory affairs. […]
Professor Gordon Parker
Professor Gordon Parker AO has received international recognition for his pioneering work in psychopathology, in particular research models to differentiate principal mood disorders (melancholia and bipolar II disorder) with diagnostic precision so that their causes and optimal treatments can be pursued. He has also carried out seminal work on parenting style and other psychosocial factors […]
Professor Jacob George
Jacob George is the Robert W. Storr Professor of Hepatic Medicine, University of Sydney and Director of the Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Westmead Hospital. His research is focussed on liver disease, with specific themes in liver cancer, viral hepatitis, host genetics and liver disease, liver fibrosis, fatty liver disease and […]
Conjoint Professor Peter Gibson
Professor Peter Gibson is a world leading authority in asthma, a respiratory physician (John Hunter Hospital), an active clinical researcher, a Director of the University of Newcastle’s Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs, and a leader of the Hunter Medical Research Institute’s Viruses, Infections/Immunity, Vaccines and Asthma program. He successfully combines his skills as a […]
Professor Maria Kavallaris
Professor Maria Kavallaris is an outstanding research leader who has made seminal discoveries on mechanisms of clinical drug resistance and tumour aggressiveness in childhood and adult cancers. Recognised as a world leader in cancer and microtubules, her discoveries have led to patents and industry linkages for the development of cancer therapeutics. Professor Kavallaris is a […]
Professor Richard Kefford
Professor Kefford is Professor of Cancer Medicine and Head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at Macquarie University, Sydney and Co‐Director of Research at Melanoma Institute Australia. He is an internationally acclaimed and highly respected clinical investigator in melanoma and a national leader in academic medicine and medical research. He has a lifelong record of […]
Professor Ian Harris
Professor Harris is a clinician and leading scientist in the field of surgery. He has strived for the advancement of science in the practice of medicine through professional involvement with peers via the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), public education, original research (over 120 papers and over $4 million […]
Professor Basil Donovan
Professor Donovan is the pioneer of sexual health research in Australia, being appointed to the country’s first ever academic post in the discipline. He made key discoveries in HIV, such as the primary HIV illness and its characteristics, and was among the first to document the effects of concurrent HIV infection on hepatitis B virus […]
Professor Rodney Phillips
Professor Rodney Phillips is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Best known for his ground-breaking research on retroviruses, as published in Nature, he was first to describe a critical means by which Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades human immune responses; specifically, escaping cytotoxic T cell recognition. Professor Phillips’ […]
Professor Ken Ho
Professor Ken Ho has been an international opinion leader in pituitary medicine for over 20 years. He is an authority on pituitary disease and the GH system in metabolic health and disease. His work is strongly translational integrating laboratory and clinical studies to elucidate the metabolic mechanisms causing and developing treatments for obesity and protein […]
Professor Roland Stocker
Professor Stocker investigates redox processes in atherosclerosis. He significantly developed this discipline through three seminal contributions. First, the discovery of beneficial activities of bilirubin changed clinical practice for the treatment of neonatal jaundice and led to haem oxygenase biology as a new research field. Second, the elucidation of the molecular action of vitamin E in […]
Professor Jane Hall
Professor Hall was one of the first Australian health services researchers involved in the measurement of health-related quality of life. Overall her publications demonstrate a major contribution across the field of health economics and health services research, with papers analyzing the relevance of research results for clinical and public health applications, an assessment of developing […]