Professor Susan Davis
Professor Susan Davis is a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow, Chair of Women’s Health, and Head of the Women’s Health Research Program at Monash University. She is considered an international authority on androgens in women and the menopause. Her research has influenced the management of a range of health issues in […]
Professor Ian Wicks
Professor Ian Wicks is Head of the Rheumatology Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Head of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute’s Inflammation Division. His Research on inflammatory diseases enabled him to identify several cytokine receptors as novel therapeutic targets. He led collaborations to develop therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against these targets. One of these has completed […]
Professor John McNeil
Professor McNeil’s research activities have involved the application of epidemiological methods to problems in clinical medicine and public health. In recognition of his service he was awarded an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in 2009. Professor McNeil has developed a strategy to undertake large community based intervention trials successfully, as demand for new […]
Professor Jane Visvader
Jane Visvader has made seminal contributions to the fields of mammary biology and breast cancer. Her team achieved a very significant breakthrough in health and medical sciences, with the isolation of breast stem cells. This work and her subsequent identification of master regulators of mammary gland development and cells of origin of cancer have altered […]
Professor Trevor Kilpatrick
Trevor Kilpatrick has advanced basic neuroscience and clinical neurology through several important discoveries that determine how key cellular interactions are established and maintained in the brain. He identified neural stem cells, interrogated their growth factor responsiveness, and established that neurons and glia interact in the healthy brain in ways that are disrupted in multiple sclerosis […]
Professor Colin Masters
Colin Masters’ work over the last 35 years is widely acknowledged as having had a major influence on Alzheimer’s disease research world-wide, particularly the collaborative studies conducted with Konrad Beyreuther in which they discovered the proteolytic neuronal origin of the Aβ amyloid protein which causes Alzheimer’s disease. Masters has continued to identify and develop effective […]