Professor Warren Alexander
Professor Warren Alexander is a distinguished leader in Australian health and medical research. His highly productive original research has made profound, enduring and internationally recognised new discoveries in molecular haematology. His experimental approach is notable for its innovation and multi-disciplinary basis. His research has not only had exceptional scientific impact, but has also inspired the […]
Professor Robert (Bob) Williamson
Professor Emeritus Richard Smallwood
Professor James (Jim) Angus
Professor Warwick Anderson
Professor Peter Doherty
Professor Christina Mitchell
Professor Christina Mitchell is a physician scientist who has made major contributions to the field of intracellular signalling and haematology. Her work has concentrated on the regulation of phosphoinositide signalling by the inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatases. She has taught the molecular basis of human diseases and haematology to science, biomedical and medical students at Monash University […]
Professor Geoffrey Donnan
The Director of The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health has demonstrated global leadership in research, health policy and implementation with over 400 research publications and h-index of 66. He has investigated stroke, its underlying mechanisms and conducted therapeutic trials with clinical translation. As President of the World Stroke Organisation (WSO) and founding Medical […]
Professor Paul Myles
Paul Myles is Professor/Director of the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne. He is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, a member of the Research Committee of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, an Editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, an Editorial Consultant for The Lancet, […]
Professor Stephen Duckett
Dr Stephen Duckett has made an exceptional contribution to health services research and health care delivery in Australia. He has held senior health care leadership positions in Australia and Canada, with a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas as diverse as hospital funding (introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals) and quality (new […]
Professor Stephen Nicholls
Professor Nicholls’ research career spans the translational spectrum from fundamental laboratory discoveries, study of patients and clinical trials that have had a major impact on the clinical practice of cardiology. He has an internationally regarded expert in the fields of lipoproteins, atherosclerosis, plaque imaging and cardiology clinical trials. His major contributions include elucidating the factors […]
Professor Vicki Anderson
Professor Anderson is a paediatric neuropsychologist with 30 years clinical experience working with children with brain insult and chronic illness and their families. In 2000 she established the Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychology Studies, which has an international standing, attracting high quality local and international researchers wishing to train in child neuropsychology. She has 271 […]
Professor Sandra Eades
Professor Sandra Eades is Domain Head Aboriginal Health and Disadvantaged Communities at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute with key expertise in Indigenous child and adolescent health, Indigenous tobacco use and randomized controlled trials in Indigenous health. The Aboriginal Health Domain incorporates a national program of research and related activities with hubs in Melbourne, Alice […]
Professor Kathryn North
Professor Kathryn North AM is Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the David Danks Professor of Child Health Research at the University of Melbourne. Professor North is trained as a paediatric physician, neurologist and clinical geneticist and in 1994, was awarded a doctorate from the University of Sydney for research into Neurogenetics. She […]
Dr Glenn Begley
Dr Begley’s research contributions include discovery of key factors controlling normal and malignant cells. His demonstration that stem cells, normally resident in bone marrow, can be enriched in blood and hasten patient recovery has revolutionized transplantation approaches. At Amgen over 25 of his research programs entered clinical trials. His work has impacted the lives of […]
Professor Robyn Guymer
Professor Guymer is Australia’s only academic ophthalmologist to focus exclusively on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of poor vision in our society. She established new AMD treatment clinics at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (the first Australian public hospital to do so); delivered state-of-the-art imaging and functional techniques; and contributed […]
Sir Gustav Nossal
Professor Samuel Berkovic
Professor Sam Berkovic’s early work was in neuroimaging where he was a pioneer in applying new brain imaging methods such as MRI to epilepsy. This rapidly entered routine clinical use and remains so today. Later, he turned to genetics and together with Ingrid Scheffer and molecular genetic collaborators, they discovered the first epilepsy gene in […]
Professor Leonard Harrison
Professor Len Harrison was among the first to characterise the insulin receptor, including its clinical relevance. He inaugurated Australian research into the pathogenesis, pre-clinical diagnosis and prevention of type 1 diabetes (T1D). He discoveries include: mechanisms of pancreatic beta-cell destruction, the primacy of insulin as an autoantigen, protective immune tolerance induced by insulin, T-cell epitopes […]
Professor Robyn OHehir
Professor Robyn O’Hehir is internationally acclaimed as a key researcher in allergy. Over 25 years, she invented and established the feasibility of cloning allergen-specific T cells to define T-cell epitopes. This research has translated into practical immunotherapy for house dust mite and pollen aeroallergens, and soon for peanut allergy, all progressing in trials or to […]