Professor Glenn Marshall
Professor Glenn Marshall AM is a renowned clinician and researcher in the field of paediatric oncology – having made breakthrough discoveries in both childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and neuroblastoma. As an integral and integrated aspect of Marshall’s research program, he has pursued both the fundamental mechanisms of carcinogenesis and sought to rapidly move these findings […]
Professor Judith Clements
Distinguished Professor Judith Clements is a recognised world-leading expert on the kallikrein serine proteases and their roles in prostate and ovarian cancers. She was an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow for 16 years from 2000-2016 and is Scientific Director and co-founder of the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Queensland. She directed the Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource, a […]
Professor Sunil Lakhani
Professor Sunil Lakhani is an internationally recognised clinical and molecular pathologist. He has made significant and sustained contributions to health and medicine, with ongoing research into preinvasive breast cancer and its impact on breast-screening practices; the pathology of BRCA1/2 associated breast cancer; and in developing new therapeutic options for brain metastases, a disease with very […]
Professor Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt’s research on illicit drug use and its health effects has shaped policy at a global level via advice to WHO, UNAIDS, and UNODC. Her data linkage work on opioid dependence has been used internationally to evaluate the benefits risks of addiction treatment. She has published >370 peer reviewed papers, ~190 since 2010; 3 […]
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 Jeremy Chapman
Honoured “for eminent service to medicine, particularly in the areas of clinical and biomedical research, to the development of ethical policy and practices for organ donation, acquisition and transplantation, and to renal medicine organisations and publications, Jeremy Chapman AC has played significant roles in development of kidney, pancreas and unrelated Bone Marrow Transplantation in Australia. […]
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 Roger Reddel
Professor Roger Reddel is a medical oncologist and cancer researcher who is internationally recognised for major contributions to understanding cellular immortality – an almost universal characteristic of cancers – and especially the role of telomere lengthening mechanisms. He also has a medical research leadership role as executive director of Children’s Medical Research Institute, and within […]
Professor Georgina Long
GL BSc(UM) PhD MBBS FRACP, Co-Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia, and President-elect for the prestigious international ‘Society for Melanoma Research’, is an international key-opinion leader in melanoma medical oncology and translational research, focusing on drivers of response and resistance to novel drugs. GL has published >130 peer-reviewed papers since 2011 (6xNEngJMed), and has obtained […]
Professor Emily Banks
Professor Emily Banks is an award-winning epidemiologist and public health physician. Her research uses large-scale population data to identify potentially modifiable factors affecting individual and population health in different settings, to inform improvements in health and health care. She is recognised nationally and internationally for her work on cancer, cardiovascular disease, medication safety and Aboriginal […]
Professor Stephen Zubrick
Stephen Zubrick is a leading developmental scientist. He pioneered the first Australian population studies of the prevalence and burden of mental disorders in Australian children and adolescents. He and his team went on to conduct the landmark Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey. Along with his team he has led the 1998 and 2014 National […]
Professor Catherine Sherrington
Prof Sherrington is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney. She leads the 17-person Ageing and Physical Disability Research Group within the Institute’s Musculoskeletal Division. Her research focuses on the promotion of physical activity and prevention of falls in older people and […]
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 Dietmar Hutmacher
Over the last decade Professor Hutmacher has gained a worldwide reputation in the field of tissue engineering& regenerative medicine (TE&RM), and his track record illustrates successful mastery of a major challenge in biomedical sciences: the ability to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, and initiate and nurture research and educational programs across different disciplines. This success has […]
Professor Philip Hogg
Phil Hogg discovered a unique mechanism of control of protein function that operates across all biological systems and lifeforms. This involves a subset of disulphide bonds thought only to act as covalent modifiers of protein structure functioning as molecular switches to allosterically regulate protein function when cleaved. He developed a novel classification scheme for disulphides […]
Professor Philip Mitchell
Philip Mitchell is an international authority in the fields of bipolar disorder and depression, with his major achievements spanning the breadth of genetics, phenomenology, treatment and epidemiology of these conditions. He has identified distinguishing clinical characteristics of bipolar depression, demonstrated specific differences in brain functioning of young people at risk to bipolar disorder, and has […]
Professor Lorimer Moseley
Professor Moseley has made seminal contributions to our understanding of persistent pain disorders and the role of brain processes in etiology and in treatment. He pioneered intensive pain biology education (‘Explaining pain’) as a treatment for chronic pain, which generated a new field of research and clinical practice. He also developed a specific treatment, which […]