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 […]
Professor Andrew Scott
Professor Andrew Scott has made significant contributions to science and medicine through the discovery of novel therapeutic antibodies that are impacting on cancer patient outcomes, and the development of evidence for positron emission tomography (PET) that has led to the approval of multiple Medicare clinical indications for accurately staging cancer patients. He has provided leadership […]
Professor Fran Baum
Baum is an international leader in public health social science. She has made major contributions to the understanding of the social determinants of health, health promotion and to the use of qualitative methods. She has published 179 refereed articles, 10 books, 40 book chapters, 68 reports for government or international agencies, and given 185 keynote […]
Professor Kiaran Kirk
Professor Kiaran Kirk is Dean of the Australian National University’s College of Science. His primary research interest is in the biology of the malaria parasite with a particular focus on the mechanism of action of, and mechanisms of resistance to, antimalarial drugs. His work has had significant translational impact, with the biochemical assays that he […]
Professor Geoffrey Farrell
Geoff Farrell is an international authority on fatty liver associated with overweight and diabetes, and how its serious form, NASH, develops and leads to cirrhosis and liver cancer. His discovery that cholesterol damages liver cells to provoke inflammation is fundamental to devising effective NASH treatments. Farrell led Asian-Pacific guidelines on prevention and management of NASH, […]
Professor Stephen Fox
Stephen Fox is an internationally recognised anatomical and molecular pathologist. He is known for his research in the field of tumour blood vessel formation where he elucidated the mechanism by which a tumour establishes a blood supply that is critical to its growth and spread. He has shown the importance of these in breast tumours […]
Professor Jurgen Götz
Alzheimer’s Disease is characterized by amyloid plaques and tau tangles. Understanding their role in pathology is crucial for developing a treatment for this yet incurable disease. Professor Jürgen Götz generated the first transgenic mouse model with a tau pathology. By combining a transgenic with a transplantation approach he proved the amyloid cascade hypothesis, a concept […]
Professor Maria Kavallaris
Professor Maria Kavallaris is an outstanding research leader who has made seminal discoveries on mechanisms of clinical drug resistance and tumour aggressiveness in childhood and adult cancers. Recognised as a world leader in cancer and microtubules, her discoveries have led to patents and industry linkages for the development of cancer therapeutics. Professor Kavallaris is a […]
Professor Richard Kefford
Professor Kefford is Professor of Cancer Medicine and Head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at Macquarie University, Sydney and Co‐Director of Research at Melanoma Institute Australia. He is an internationally acclaimed and highly respected clinical investigator in melanoma and a national leader in academic medicine and medical research. He has a lifelong record of […]
Professor Terence O’Brien
Professor O’Brien is a medical specialist in neurology and clinical pharmacology, with particular expertise in epilepsy and related brain disorders, anti‐epileptic drugs and imaging in animal models and humans. His research covers both basic and clinical studies related to epilepsy, its neuropsychiatric co‐morbidities and other neurodegenerative brain diseases. He has published more than 290 peer‐reviewed […]
Professor Ian Harris
Professor Harris is a clinician and leading scientist in the field of surgery. He has strived for the advancement of science in the practice of medicine through professional involvement with peers via the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), public education, original research (over 120 papers and over $4 million […]
Professor Catriona McLean
Professor McLean directs Anatomical Pathology and the State Neuromuscular Service, Alfred Health. With expertise in pathology and neuropathology, she has published 300+ research papers in the fields of: dementia and cancer. As inaugural director of the NHMRC Australian Brain Bank Network she has enabled accurate provision of pathologically characterized tissues to national and international researchers […]
Professor Andreas Strasser
Cell Death is necessary for the normal development and functioning of multi‐cellular animals. Apoptosis is a process of programmed cell suicide, which removes cells that are no longer needed or have become dangerous. Professor Strasser showed that defects in apoptosis cause cancer and autoimmune disease and render tumour cells resistant to anti-cancer therapeutics. He identified […]
Professor Christobel Saunders
Christobel Saunders is a surgeon and cancer researcher, recognised as a leader in both surgical practice and research in Australia and internationally. This is demonstrated through her portfolio of research publications (over 150), successful grants (over $25m), translation of research into practice (such as guideline development and obtaining government funding for new treatments) and executive […]
Professor Ross McKinnon
Professor McKinnon is a global leader in pharmacy and pharmaceutical science with broad contributions spanning the breadth of pharmaceutical research, policy and education. Attracting over $24 million, his research has produced 130 original papers, 12 patents and two spin-off companies. He was Foundation Director of the Sansom Institute (UniSA) and Flinders Centre for Innovation in […]
Professor Benjamin Kile
Benjamin Kile is Joint Head of the ACRF Chemical Biology Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, and a Professor at the University of Melbourne. A world leader in platelet biology, Ben is also known for his seminal discoveries in hematopoiesis, oncogene function, cell death and inflammatory disease. He […]
Professor Roger Byard
Professor Roger Byard has conducted much original research into many aspects of forensic pathology, focussing particularly on accidental and sudden death. He has been very active on community and government committees developing recommendations and proposing policy changes to deal with tragic cases of sudden unexpected death, and in media campaigns and public lectures. He has […]
Professor Basil Donovan
Professor Donovan is the pioneer of sexual health research in Australia, being appointed to the country’s first ever academic post in the discipline. He made key discoveries in HIV, such as the primary HIV illness and its characteristics, and was among the first to document the effects of concurrent HIV infection on hepatitis B virus […]
Professor Jane Gunn
Professor Jane Gunn is a distinguished academic general practitioner whose leadership has raised the profile and rigour of primary care research in Australia. As the inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research at The University of Melbourne her work in mental health addresses a leading cause of disability burden. She has established a unique cohort study […]