Professor Jonathan Shaw
Professor Jonathan Shaw is one of the world leaders in the epidemiology of diabetes. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, has over 2,700 citations annually, and was one of only seven Australians listed in the Clinical Medicine section of the Thomson Reuters “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014”. His work has ranged from […]
Professor Ross Coppel
Professor Coppel has made original and important contributions in the study of malaria, primary biliary cirrhosis, tuberculosis and bioinformatics. His areas of molecular study include antigen discovery for malaria vaccines, identification of autoantigens to study the autoimmune response and disease etiology, key proteins involved in cell wall synthesis of mycobacteria and development of advanced genomic […]
Professor Bronwyn Kingwell
Professor Bronwyn Kingwell’s fundamental and clinical research in arterial biomechanics has driven new approaches for the management of arterial diseases. She has pioneered the transition of detailed cellular and molecular studies of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in laboratory models, in particular with regard to glucose metabolism, to a human context. This work has opened major new […]
Professor Andrew Sinclair
Professor Sinclair’s groundbreaking research, including the discovery of the Y-linked SRY (testis) gene, underpin our understanding of normal and dysfunctional gonad development and its impact on children with Disorders of Sex Development. Importantly, he has translated his work into the clinic by developing much-needed rapid and accurate diagnostic tests. His research excellence, along with his […]
Professor Brendan Crabb
Professor Brendan Crabb has made a number of discoveries of major significance relating to our understanding of human malaria, a field in which he is a major internationally recognised figure. He was primarily responsible for the discovery of the malaria translocon, a protein machine that constitutes perhaps the leading new drug target in malaria. He […]
Professor Richard Larkins
Professor Richard Larkins has combined clinical work in endocrinology and general medicine with research into the causes and complications of diabetes, vitamin D metabolism and other aspects of diabetes and endocrinology. As a clinical academic he was the James Stewart Professor of Medicine for 14 years and Dean of the Faculty of MDHS at the […]
Professor Hugh Taylor
Melbourne Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor holds the Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that, he was Head of the University of Melbourne Department of Ophthalmology and founded the Centre for Eye Research Australia. Professor Taylor’s current work particularly focuses on Aboriginal eye health including the elimination of […]
Professor Suzanne Crowe
Professor Suzanne Crowe is a physician-scientist who co-founded the first HIV clinic in Melbourne (Fairfield Hospital, 1984). Her internationally-recognized research focusses on two areas of global importance: HIV pathogenesis and HIV care in resource-limited countries. Her findings inform clinical practice and current “cure” research. Her co-developed point-of-care CD4 test, licensed to Omega, UK, will provide […]
Professor Sharon Lewin
Professor Sharon Lewin is the inaugural director of the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne; consultant physician, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellow. She is an infectious diseases physician and basic scientist and an internationally recognised expert on HIV disease […]
Professor Joseph Trapani
Professor Joe Trapani, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FFSc (RCPA) is currently Executive Director Cancer Research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the inaugural Head of the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at the University of Melbourne. Joe has made many seminal and original contributions to the field of molecular and cellular immunology, with impact […]