Professor Maree Smith
Professor Maree Smith is recognised internationally in the field of drug discovery-translation, having made significant and sustained contributions to pain relief and new pharmaceutical development. Her discoveries have led to novel treatments for neuropathic and inflammatory pain that have entered the clinical trial stage, and are being commercialised through significant international investment from venture capital […]
Professor Claire Rickard
Professor Claire Rickard is an internationally respected nurse researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the field of vascular access. She established and is Director of the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR), and is 2nd Chief Investigator of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Nursing Interventions in Hospitalised Patients, both based […]
Professor Johannes (John) Prins
Professor Prins is a Key Opinion Leader in Diabetes and Endocrinology and a Clinician-Scientist with an international reputation. He has demonstrated sustained excellence in research, teaching/supervision and clinical care. In parallel, he holds leadership positions in both the health care and academic sectors, including as a Director of Metro South Hospital and health Service,with a […]
Professor Grant Montgomery
Professor Montgomery is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Coordinator of the Genetics and Computational Biology Department at QIMR Berghofer MRC. He has an outstanding track record and is recognized internationally for his studies in reproductive genetics and gene discovery of complex disease. He leads studies of the genetic contribution to important common diseases […]
Professor Donald McManus (Vale)
Professor McManus’s research focuses on the global elimination of neglected tropical diseases, notably schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm infection affecting 200 million of the world’s poorest people, and putting a further 800 million at risk. He has decades of transformative-research experience and his multi-disciplined team has developed novel techniques and tools, including vaccines, to eradicate this […]
Professor Philip Hugenholtz
Professor Hugenholtz is a microbiologist who has made landmark contributions in the field of culture-independent analysis of microorganisms. He discovered and characterised numerous previously unrecognised major bacterial and archaeal lineages each with greater evolutionary divergence than animals and plants combined. He has been instrumental in the development and application of metagenomics, the genome-based characterisation of […]