Professor Ian Olver
Ian Olver is a medical oncologist with a PhD in bioethics who received an AM for service to medical oncology as a clinician, researcher, administrator and mentor and to the community through leadership roles with cancer control organisations. Currently Director of the Sansom Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Translational Cancer Research, University of […]
Professor Thomas Kay
Tom Kay is Director of St. Vincent’s Institute and President of the Immunology of Diabetes Society. He is Chief Investigator on an NHMRC Program Grant, “Pathogenesis-based Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes”. As an endocrinologist and clinical immunologist he leads the Victorian node of the Australian Islet Transplant Consortium. Contributions include the role of CD8+ T […]
Professor Rodney Phillips
Professor Rodney Phillips is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Best known for his ground-breaking research on retroviruses, as published in Nature, he was first to describe a critical means by which Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades human immune responses; specifically, escaping cytotoxic T cell recognition. Professor Phillips’ […]
Professor Harvey Whiteford
Professor Whiteford has made major contributions to medical and health science through his leadership in mental health policy development and administration and through his academic research. His policy and administrative leadership in state and Commonwealth governments and with the World Bank is recognised as central to the redesign of Australian mental health services and instrumental […]
Professor Miles Prince
Professor Miles Prince is a clinician-researcher haematologist whose work has made a major impact in patient care and our understanding of the mechanism of action of a variety of novel agents now used routinely in cancer therapy. His contribution within the field of translational research has been in the areas of myeloma exploring a variety […]
Professor Ken Ho
Professor Ken Ho has been an international opinion leader in pituitary medicine for over 20 years. He is an authority on pituitary disease and the GH system in metabolic health and disease. His work is strongly translational integrating laboratory and clinical studies to elucidate the metabolic mechanisms causing and developing treatments for obesity and protein […]
Professor Kylie Ball
Professor Ball leads a research program focused on improving population nutrition and physical activity behaviours and reducing socioeconomic inequities in health. Her research has informed state and national prevention agendas and community-based programs that have improved health behaviours and reduced chronic disease risk. By age 35 she had already served in key leadership positions for […]
Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
Professor Jayashri Kulkarni is internationally recognised for her research into causes of mental illness in women. She founded, and directs, the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, whose aim is to develop new treatments for mental illness. She has pioneered the use of estrogen to treat schizophrenia, hormones for depression and is a world leader in […]
Professor Roland Stocker
Professor Stocker investigates redox processes in atherosclerosis. He significantly developed this discipline through three seminal contributions. First, the discovery of beneficial activities of bilirubin changed clinical practice for the treatment of neonatal jaundice and led to haem oxygenase biology as a new research field. Second, the elucidation of the molecular action of vitamin E in […]
Professor Jane Hall
Professor Hall was one of the first Australian health services researchers involved in the measurement of health-related quality of life. Overall her publications demonstrate a major contribution across the field of health economics and health services research, with papers analyzing the relevance of research results for clinical and public health applications, an assessment of developing […]
Professor David Bowtell
Professor Bowtell holds joint appointments at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Garvan Institute. He was Director of Research at Peter Mac from 2000-2009. Professor Bowtell has an extensive background human cancer genomics, particularly ovarian cancer. He is PI for the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, one of the largest population-based cohort studies of ovarian […]
Professor Elizabeth Elliott
Elizabeth is an academic paediatrician with a national and international reputation for leadership in medical research, education and advocacy. Her focus is children with rare diseases (including Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders), in immigration detention and developing settings, and Indigenous children. She founded and leads two national surveillance systems – the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit for […]
Professor Linda Richards
Professor Richards is a world leader in brain development, in particular nervous system wiring. She is internationally recognised as driving our understanding of the development of the corpus callosum, the major connection between the brain hemispheres. Her career has been exemplified by her ability to seize new technologies and capitalise upon these to advance the […]
Professor Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic is an international leader in kidney research, and Executive Director of the George Institute Australia. His research has demonstrated the benefits of several interventions in kidney disease, and seeks to prevent kidney failure through new treatments. He has demonstrated that half or fewer people with kidney failure globally have access to dialysis, and […]
Emeritus Professor Keryn Williams
Blindness exerts significant physical, emotional and financial constraints and hardship upon individuals. For The past 30 years Professor Keryn Williams, a transplantation immunobiologist, has been working to decrease this disease burden. Improving the outcomes of corneal transplantation, the dominant surgical treatment for corneal opacity, has been a central focus of her research. As founder and […]
Professor Gregory Dore
Professor Dore is a renowned infectious diseases physician and clinical epidemiologist. His characterisation of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic, has informed public health policy and positioned his group as an international leader in HCV epidemiology. His HCV therapeutic research among people who inject drugs has guided clinical management internationally and enhanced access to treatment […]
Professor Christine McDonald
Professor McDonald is an eminent physician-scientist working in the field of Respiratory Medicine. She has distinguished herself as a physician, investigator and teacher and latterly also as public spokesperson and department and institute head. She is recognised nationally and internationally for translating clinical research from bench to bedside in home and hospital settings, especially in […]
Professor Graeme Hankey
Professor Hankey is recognized nationally and internationally for excellence in medical and health science in the field of stroke research. He has a number of international and national awards as well as more than 300 publications in which he has made major advances in the field of stroke prevention particularly. He has shown how blood […]
Professor Simon Gandevia
Simon Gandevia is a clinical neurophysiologist with a history of major discoveries about human movement control in health and disease. His research covers three strands: (i) neural mechanisms of proprioception; (ii) neural control of muscle performance, especially during muscle fatigue; and (iii) control of human breathing muscles. His work has provided insight into many disorders, […]
Professor Susan Davis
Professor Susan Davis is a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow, Chair of Women’s Health, and Head of the Women’s Health Research Program at Monash University. She is considered an international authority on androgens in women and the menopause. Her research has influenced the management of a range of health issues in […]