Professor John Carlin
Professor John Carlin is internationally recognised for research and leadership in biostatistics. He is a leading figure in this key enabling discipline in Australia, having established the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics and previously co-founding the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia. His reputation is built on a combination of influential methodological research, an extensive array of major […]
Professor Kim Bennell
Kim Bennell, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, is a world-renowned physiotherapist and international research leader in nondrug management of musculoskeletal conditions, particularly osteoarthritis. Kim’s multidisciplinary high quality research, published in over 350 peer-reviewed publications, has influenced clinical guidelines and practice, improving outcomes for people with […]
Professor Alan Lopez
Alan Lopez is a highly cited public health researcher whose contributions have had a major impact on health policy debates in Australia and worldwide, named in the top 10 most influential researchers worldwide by Thompson-Reuters in 2015. His seminal and continuing work on the Global Burden of Disease Study with Chris Murray is used by […]
Professor James Beeson
Professor Beeson is an exceptional public health physician and malaria researcher at the Burnet Institute. With extensive research throughout Africa and Asia in the field of malaria, his research discoveries have significantly contributed to global scientific knowledge and have led to priority candidates for vaccines being developed. As a leader of the lnstitute’s flagship Healthy […]
Professor Clare Scott
Professor Clare Scott is a clinician scientist and head of the ovarian cancer laboratory at WEHI. Her expertise in novel pre-clinical mouse models of epithelial ovarian cancer complements her involvement in ovarian cancer genetics and key contributions to clinical trials of the DNA repair inhibitors, PARP inhibitors. The focus of Scott’s laboratory is discovery, leading […]
Professor Stephen O’Leary
Stephen O’Leary is a surgeon scientist who has dedicated his career to the treatment of hearing loss, especially the prevention of hearing loss during surgical interventions to the inner ear such as cochlear implantation. His experimental finding that steroids protect the ear during cochlear implantation has lead to clinical trials. His team’s development of intraoperative […]
Professor Patrick McGorry
Professor Patrick McGorry, Australian of the Year 2010, is Executive Director of Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health. He is also Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and founding member of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace) board. Professor McGorry and Orygen have put Australia at […]
Professor Mark Cook
Mark Cook has demonstrated a sustained contribution and leadership in medical research over a 25-year period. He is highly regarded internationally for his research excellence in neurology, and in the field of epilepsy in particular. He has made significant contributions to health science through his research, clinical, administrative, and educational roles at both St. Vincents […]
Professor Patrick Kwan
Professor Kwan is a medical specialist in neurology with particular expertise in epilepsy and molecular precision medicine. His research combines basic and clinical studies, with emphasis on translation of scientific discoveries into clinical practice. He has published >160 peer reviewed papers and book chapters in the world’s top medical journals including, first author, the most […]
Professor Arthur Christopoulos
“Discovery and dissemination of the concept of allosteric sites on receptor proteins as a novel avenue for drug discovery”. Professor Christopoulos has demonstrated how this approach can be used to identify, validate, quantify, and facilitate preclinical translation of small molecules with an allosteric mode of action for all classes of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), the […]
Professor John Christodoulou
John Christodoulou is clinical geneticist working in the management of children with inborn errors of metabolism for over 25 years. He has a longstanding interest in Rett syndrome (RTT), with a potential new therapy and the discovery the second gene associated with RTT as notable achievements. More recently, using next generation sequencing (NGS) he identified […]
Professor Sherene Loi
Professor Sherene Loi has made significant contributions in breast cancer research. These include 1. understanding the role of the immune system and its reaction to breast cancers, 2. how doctors can therapeutically and potentially favourably alter the immune response, 3. development of important new drugs for breast cancer patients including palbocicilb and pertuzumab which have […]
Professor Jamie Rossjohn
Rossjohn has provided profound insight into T-cell biology, defining the basis of key immune recognition events by T-cells. He has used structural biology to explain pre-T-cell receptor (TCR) self-association in T-cell development, and how the TCR recognises polymorphic Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) molecules. He has unearthed mechanisms of HLA polymorphism impacting on drug and food […]
Professor Mark Dawson
As a clinician-scientist, Professor Dawson has consistently demonstrated academic excellence and leadership both in basic science discoveries and the translation of these findings into the clinical arena. His research into chromatin regulation of normal and malignant haematopoiesis have provided a range of groundbreaking discoveries including the development in collaboration with GSK of the first clinical therapies […]
Professor Graeme Young
Professor Graeme Young AM is a global leader in prevention of colorectal cancer. His contributions span epithelial and molecular biology, nutrition, biomarker development and validation, clinical and population randomised trials. He established the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer as Director of Development and chaired the growth of the most influential global network in colorectal […]
Professor Andrew Davidson
Prof Davidson is a world leader in paediatric anaesthesia. He has led some of the most influential research in this field, with a significant impact on clinical care, and has established a global network of researchers. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Pediatric Anesthesia and will shortly take up a positon as an Editor […]
Professor Dale Godfrey
Dale Godfrey is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne. He is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Immediate Past President of the Australasian Society for Immunology. Over the past 25 years, working in the field of Immunology, Godfrey has defined and studied new […]
Professor John Furness
Professor Furness is a leading authority on digestive physiology, especially the neural control of the digestive tract. He has been strongly involved in evaluation of therapeutic drugs and has run clinical trials of candidate drugs. He is currently the leader of a program to develop vagal nerve stimulation for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. […]
Professor Cameron Simmons
Professor Cameron Simmons is an internationally recognised infectious disease scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of dengue. He has been at the forefront of developing and testing novel approaches to improve individual patient outcomes through better diagnosis, prognosis and testing of new treatment options. As Director of Impact Assessment in the […]
Professor Helena Teede
Professor Teede is a clinician, academic, and leader committed to research and translation, delivering measurable changes in policy and practice. She is nationally and internationally recognised for excellence in health and medical research, exceptional leadership, and community engagement. Focusing on improving women’s reproductive health, she has spearheaded the development of the first evidence-based guidelines on […]