Professor Sarah Wilson
Professor Sarah Wilson is an internationally recognised expert in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology. Her research program has advanced our understanding of how the human brain underpins our thinking and behavior. She has pioneered music brain research in Australia, showing how music can enhance brain function in healthy individuals, and help recovery after brain injury. […]
Professor Richard Kitching
Professor Richard Kitching is a Nephrologist physician-scientist who has made sustained and important contributions to our understanding of kidney disease. These include defining the roles of T lymphocytes and their subsets in mediating kidney injury, and the protective role of regulatory T cells in immune kidney disease. He has defined key parts of molecules that […]
Professor Alan Cowman
Professor Alan Cowman is an expert in the field of malaria and his work has determined how malaria parasites evade lethal effects of important antimalarial drugs. This knowledge allowed detection of drug resistant malaria parasites to understand prevalence and spread of drug resistance, important for developing public policy on antimalarial use. He developed tools to […]
Professor John F Bertram
Professor John Bertram is internationally recognised for his outstanding research contributions in kidney developmental biology, developmental origins of kidney and cardiovascular health and disease, and quantitative imaging. He has shown that low nephron number in kidneys is linked to high blood pressure and kidney disease in animals and several human populations. These findings have contributed […]
Professor Monica Slavin
Professor Monica Slavin is Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and a Centre of Research Excellence in Infections in cancer. She is an international leader in the specialised field of infections in patients whose immune systems are compromised. Whilst involved in direct patient care, she has built a research […]
Professor Caroline Homer
Professor Caroline Homer AO is a leading midwifery researcher in Australia with an international reputation as a leader in maternal and newborn health care and service delivery. She obtained her PhD in 2001 and since then has led research and development projects in Australia and internationally; especially in relation to health services delivery, reproductive, maternal […]
Professor Bruce Campbell
Professor Bruce Campbell is an internationally recognised stroke neurologist whose research into brain imaging and emergency treatment of stroke has led to global changes in clinical practice, particularly through the widespread use of CT-perfusion imaging and endovascular thrombectomy for ischaemic stroke. He led the EXTEND-IA trial of endovascular thrombectomy (NEJM 2015, >1780 cites) that used […]
Professor Jennifer Hoy
Professor Jennifer Hoy was appointed the inaugural Professor Director of HIV Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University in 2008. Prior to this, she established and directed the internationally recognised Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (1988-2008). Prof Hoy herself is internationally recognised for her research and expertise in HIV and comorbidities. Her […]
Professor David Thorburn
Professor Thorburn is one of Australia’s foremost genetics experts, with a focus on mitochondrial energy generation disorders, and is widely recognised as a world leader in inherited metabolic diseases. For the past 25 years, he has worked with children with disabling and potentially lethal mitochondrial disorders, discovering genes that cause these conditions and developing effective […]
Professor Jo Salmon
Professor Jo Salmon has spent 20 years researching the impact of sitting on health and the effectiveness of interventions to reduce youth sitting time. This applied research has been adopted by government health and education departments for implementation in schools nationally and internationally. Her research has also informed children’s physical activity and sedentary guidelines in […]
Professor Kelly-Anne Phillips
Professor Kelly-Anne Phillips is a medical oncologist and researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. As a highly productive clinician-researcher, she treats women affected with breast cancer and runs a prevention clinic for those at high risk, while concurrently leading internationally recognised research related to breast cancer genetics and treatment. Her research, and related health […]
Professor Marc Pellegrini
Professor Marc Pellegrini is an infectious diseases physician, Division Head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Honorary Professor at The University of Melbourne, Honorary NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, and member of NHMRC Translational Faculty and Assigner Academy. His research bridges the gap between basic science and translation into the clinic. He is internationally recognised […]
Professor James McCarthy
Professor James McCarthy is a clinician scientist with an outstanding record of achievement in translational research in parasitic diseases. Although his most notable recent achievements relate to the development of a unique malaria human challenge system that has transformed early stage drug development for malaria. Over his career he has made internationally significant contributions to […]
Professor Stephen Kent
Professor Kent is Australia’s leading authority and research scientist on the search for an HIV vaccine. He is an infectious diseases physician and scientist dedicated to basic, translational and clinical research on viral immunity. He has over 240 peer-reviewed publications in the field of viral immunity. He leads a 30-person team of dedicated scientists towards […]
Professor Jonathan Kalman
Professor Jonathan Kalman is an NHMRC practitioner fellow who leads both clinical and research groups in the Department of Cardiac Arrhythmias at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne. He has a national and international reputation as a leader in the field of atrial arrhythmias and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications (H Index […]
Professor Karin Jandeleit-Dahm
Professor Jandeleit-Dahm is a clinician scientist (FRACP) and NHMRC Senior Research fellow with an established track record in diabetes and its complications. She is considered a national and international leader in diabetes research and has made seminal discoveries on new targets to treat diabetic complications. She has been successful in obtaining ongoing grant funding. Currently, […]
Professor Margaret Hellard
Professor Hellard is an infectious disease physician, public health physician and researcher; she is recognised as a global leader in epidemiology and clinical care especially in the fields of hepatitis C and HIV among key populations, and for using new technologies in health promotion. Her work has directly informed policy direction and practice in Australia […]
Professor Sean Grimmond
Professor Grimmond is internationally recognised as a leader in cancer genomics, a pioneer of transcriptomics, and a committed advocate to genome-directed medicine. Over the last 25 years he has led a broad research program which uses transcriptome dynamics and genome content to uncover the underlying genetics controlling malignancies, developmental defects and pluripotency. Since 2009, Professor […]
Professor Christopher Fairley
Professor Fairley has substantially improved sexual health services over many years. He was the first to recognise that access to health care was the key driver of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Indigenous communities (Hansard 1997). He has led innovations in sexual health services in Australia and internationally that have materially improved access to services […]
Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti
Professor Degli-Esposti is an eminent researcher of international standing and a leader in the field of viral immunology. She has made multiple seminal contributions to understanding the immunological pathways invoked in response to viral infection and the pathophysiology of the resulting disease. Her work has been the subject of highly cited papers in prestigious journals […]