Professor Melissa Wake
Paediatrician Melissa Wake is recognised for her work in ‘population paediatrics’ – what universal and secondary care systems will make a difference to the health of our children, and the adults they will become? She creates and drives large-scale platforms to change the nature of paediatric research and rigorously tests new interventions to change the […]
Professor Andrew Cuthbertson
Professor Geoffrey Lindeman
Professor Geoffrey Lindeman and his team identified breast stem and progenitor cells that generate all ductal tissue in the breast. His group’s discoveries helped define breast development from long-lived stem cells to progenitor and mature epithelial cells, providing a new framework for studying the molecular and cellular events that give rise to breast cancer. His […]
Professor Euan Wallace
Professor Wallace is one of Australia’s leading clinical academics in obstetrics and gynaecology with a sustained research record spanning 20 years. Through his leadership roles at Monash University, MIMR-PHI Medical Research Institute, and Monash Health he has sought to advance discovery and clinical research in perinatal medicine with a vision for better healthcare and better […]
Professor Stephen Davis
Professor Stephen Davis is an international leader in clinical neurology and clinical neuroscience research. He is the Director of the largest Australian Neurology Department and directs a translational neuroscience research facility, the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital/University of Melbourne. He is the PI of an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence Grant. He […]
Professor James McCluskey
Professor James McCluskey is a leader in the immunogenetics and biology of the Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) of the major histocompatibility complex. His discoveries have illuminated the biochemical basis for HLA selection of antigens, genetic control of cellular immunity and the structural basis of T cell recognition, providing a paradigm for the basis of HLA […]