Professor Christopher Levi
Over the past 15 years, Prof Chris Levi has established one of Australia’s leading stroke research groups. His overarching research vision has been the translation of experimental stroke therapies into the clinical domain. This builds on a career objective to provide health care professionals with greater knowledge, better tools and more effective strategies to treat […]
Professor Matthew Kiernan
Professor Matthew Kiernan is a clinical neurologist and neuroscientist at the forefront of research into human neurophysiology. His pioneering work in nerve excitability techniques has produced novel insights into disease mechanisms, and based on these developments he has instituted new treatment trials. His research innovations have delineated properties of central and peripheral nerves and their susceptibility […]
Professor Anthony Kelleher
Professor Kelleher is a clinician scientist whose work has significantly advanced our understanding of interactions between HIV and the immune system. Focused on human T-cells and their manipulation by therapeutics, he’s made seminal contributions to the field including in relation to co-evolution of HIV and immune responses and development of a novel way of virus […]
Professor John Kaldor
John Kaldor is an internationally-renowned and esteemed public health researcher whose work in Australia and the Asia-Pacific has focused on the development of infectious disease control strategies. He established public health surveillance systems that provided key support for once controversial initiatives in HIV prevention, such as a needle and syringe distribution, by demonstrating effectiveness. Also, […]
Professor Mark Harris
Professor Harris is highly regarded for his research into the prevention and management of chronic disease in general practice and community health services, vulnerable population (including Aboriginal and refugee health) and access to primary health care. This has given rise to over 300 publications in the national and international peer review research literature and is […]
Professor David Handelsman
David Handelsman is a world-leading authority on androgen physiology, pharmacology and toxicology arising from his sustained and wide-ranging clinical, experimental and public health research and discoveries in elucidating androgen action, use and misuse. He became Australia’s first Professor of Andrology (1996), created Australia’s first hospital Andrology Department (1999) and is inaugural Director, ANZAC Research Institute […]
Professor Andrew Grulich
Professor Andrew Grulich is an internationally renowned authority in Immune deficiency, infection and cancer and Transmission and prevention of HIV. His work has documented how immune function influences cancer risk, and demonstrated effective HIV prevention in homosexual men. His finding that infection-related cancers occur at increased risk in transplant recipients overturned thinking about the role […]
Professor Katharina Gaus (Vale)
Scientia Professor Katharina Gaus is an acknowledged authority in the fields of cellular immunology and molecular microscopy. Her work has not only completely overturned our understanding of T cell activation, but we can now image and map signalling molecules in T cell synapses with nanometre precision. Her frequently world-first research achievements are matched by her […]
Professor Paul Foster
Laureate Professor Paul Foster, DSc (ANU), undertakes research which has transformed the way scientists understand the fundamental molecular and cellular processes that regulate allergic inflammation, and how they contribute to the pathogenesis of asthma and eosinophilic disorders. These include seminal findings on how cytokines (interleukins (IL)) derived from T-helper cells contribute to allergic disease. Notably, […]
Professor David Currow
Professor David Currow has contributed internationally to the ongoing development of palliative and supportive care. He is one of the 10 most published palliative care researchers in the world, and has attracted competitive funding and contract work worth more than $70million.His research is now directly influencing clinical practice, policy and funding around the world. He […]
Professor Stephen Clarke
Professor Stephen Clarke is Director of Cancer Services in Northern Sydney Local Health District and Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is an established clinician and translational cancer researcher in thoracic and gastrointestinal malignancies. He is Head of the NSW State Committee of the RACP and Oncology Advisor to the Department of Veteran’s […]
Professor Steven Chadban
Professor Chadban received the University Medal in Medicine at Newcastle, gained his FRACP in Nephrology, PhD at Monash and Post-doc at Cambridge University, UK. He ran the Transplantation Program at Monash 1999–2002 then moved to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, as a Senior-Staff Nephrologist, Head of Kidney Transplantation, and Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) Sydney University. […]
Professor Julie Byles
Professor Byles is recognised both nationally and internationally for her exceptional leadership and outstanding contribution to public health, women’s health and ageing research. Her work includes examining the role of health services, preventive activities and treatments which maintain quality of life over the life course, determining physical, psychological and social factors associated with optimal physical […]
Professor Henry Brodaty
Professor Brodaty understands health and medical research from the inside, the consumer view, and the big picture (as member of 2013 McKeon Review). He founded and led old age psychiatry in Australia and internationally. Academically he is pre-eminent: in psychogeriatrics as Australia’s most published researcher; in dementia among the top researchers in Australia and internationally […]
Professor John Shine
Professor Nicholas Saunders
Professor John Horvath
Professor Michael Cousins
Professor (Robert) John Aitken
Professor John Aitken’s research has laid the foundations for our current understanding of oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of male infertility and shaped the techniques that are currently being used to diagnose and address this condition. He has also pioneered the use of mass spectrometry to create the first definitive proteomic inventories of spermatozoa, creating […]
Professor Ian Alexander
Professor Alexander has made globally significant contributions to the science of gene transfer and translation through to therapeutic applications in genetic and acquired diseases of childhood. He has played a pioneering role in the establishment of the gene therapy field in Australia, providing leadership in the formation of a specialist society, contributions to regulatory oversight, […]