Professor Ian Wicks
Professor Ian Wicks is Head of the Rheumatology Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Head of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute’s Inflammation Division. His Research on inflammatory diseases enabled him to identify several cytokine receptors as novel therapeutic targets. He led collaborations to develop therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against these targets. One of these has completed […]
Professor John McNeil
Professor McNeil’s research activities have involved the application of epidemiological methods to problems in clinical medicine and public health. In recognition of his service he was awarded an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in 2009. Professor McNeil has developed a strategy to undertake large community based intervention trials successfully, as demand for new […]
Professor Jane Visvader
Jane Visvader has made seminal contributions to the fields of mammary biology and breast cancer. Her team achieved a very significant breakthrough in health and medical sciences, with the isolation of breast stem cells. This work and her subsequent identification of master regulators of mammary gland development and cells of origin of cancer have altered […]
Professor Jonathan Morris
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sydney and President Elect of the Perinatal Society Australia and New Zealand and a Board Member of the Global Obstetric Network (GoNET). Awarded Member of the Order of Australia for his clinical, research, education and advocacy work in Women’s Health. Professor Morris has over 160 publications […]
Professor Paul Scuffham
Over the past 15 years, Professor Scuffham has made significant contributions to the field of health economics and policy. He has led research and commercial work ($8.3m since 2011) which has greatly impacted health policy decisions and expenditure (~$3.3b over next 5 years) in Australia. His commitment to advance the field of health economics in […]
Professor Robert Herbert
Professor Rob Herbert is recognised as a world leader both in clinical trials of physiotherapy interventions and mechanisms of motor impairment. He has led major studies with important findings in both fields. He has published widely in leading journals (>175 full-length papers; world’s 6th most published researcher in physiotherapy). He holds an NHMRC Principal Research […]
Professor Trevor Kilpatrick
Trevor Kilpatrick has advanced basic neuroscience and clinical neurology through several important discoveries that determine how key cellular interactions are established and maintained in the brain. He identified neural stem cells, interrogated their growth factor responsiveness, and established that neurons and glia interact in the healthy brain in ways that are disrupted in multiple sclerosis […]
Professor Robyn Norton
Professor Robyn Norton is the founding Principal Director of one of the most successful medical research institutes in Australia, The George Institute for Global Health. Established in 1999 with 3 permanent staff, the Institute now includes over 500 individuals, headquartered in Sydney, with additional centres in China, India and the United Kingdom. Professor Norton is […]
Professor William Rawlinson
William Rawlinson is a clinician scientist recognised internationally for translational research into cytomegalovirus, congenital malformation from infections, and viral diseases of immunosuppressed patients. He established, and oversees, serology and virology clinical research programs, state-wide transplant donor screening, and national quality programs for serology and biosecurity. He is conjoint professor at UNSW while holding an NHMRC […]
Professor Fabienne Mackay
Professor Fabienne Mackay is an internationally renowned immunologist who has published over 138 highly cited research articles and reviews. Her h-index is 56 (12,396 citations). In 2012, she was awarded the Thomson Reuters Citation and innovation Award, and in 2014 a Trophy from the French ministry of foreign affairs for outstanding achievement in research and […]
Professor Richard Bryant
Richard Bryant is an internationally renowned authority in the field of mental health following traumatic events. Amongst his many world‐first achievements, Bryant’s development of assessment tools for identifying recently traumatized people who may subsequently develop PTSD has become the international gold standard in the field. Moreover, he was subsequently tasked with overseeing the new diagnostic […]
Professor Claire Wainwright
Professor Claire wainwright is the Head of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) services which provide state-wide services for around 420 children with CF across Queensland. She also runs the respiratory service for the only national clinic caring for children with ataxia telangiectasia. She has a long standing research interest in airway diseases, including bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis […]
Professor Allan Cripps (Vale)
Professor Cripps has made significant contributions to the delivery of health services, leadership in health academia and in research. He has led and implemented programs for the training of thousands of future of health professionals. His research has focused on the study of mucosal immunology and preventing respiratory infections. Professor Cripps’ efforts have brought together […]
Professor Richard Harvey
Richard Harvey is a pioneer of the molecular era of heart development and congenital heart disease (CHD) research, and has contributed significantly to cardiac regeneration biology. His discovery of the homeodomain transcription factor Nkx2‐5 provided the key entry point for molecular dissection of heart development and CHD in humans. His work defined new patterning principals […]
Professor Colin Masters
Colin Masters’ work over the last 35 years is widely acknowledged as having had a major influence on Alzheimer’s disease research world-wide, particularly the collaborative studies conducted with Konrad Beyreuther in which they discovered the proteolytic neuronal origin of the Aβ amyloid protein which causes Alzheimer’s disease. Masters has continued to identify and develop effective […]
Professor Michelle Haber
Professor Michelle Haber is a world leader in the field of childhood cancer research. She has made fundamental discoveries in the area of drug resistance in neuroblastoma which have had major impact on the global research community. She has translated these discoveries into new therapeutics that are currently being clinically tested and has developed into […]
Professor Charles Mullighan
Charles Mullighan is an academic haematologist who has devoted his research career to defining the genetic basis of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a leading cause of childhood cancer death. His work has resulted in multiple seminal studies that have transformed our understanding of this disease and related tumours. He is regarded as an international leader in […]
Professor Paul Worley
Professor Paul Worley is a rural doctor and Emeritus Professor at Flinders University. His ground‐breaking work in the science of rural community based medical education, and its impact on addressing the maldistribution of doctors for rural and underserved areas, has changed the face of medical education and rural medical workforce policy nationally and internationally. His […]
Professor Gary Wittert
Professor Wittert is a senior Endocrinologist and scientist of national and international standing, earned through 25 years of dedication to excellence and innovation in basic science, clinical and population-based research. His achievements are multidisciplinary and include new understandings of the physiology of food intake, metabolism and body composition, the consequences of obesity beyond heart disease […]
Professor David Whiteman
Professor David Whiteman is a medical epidemiologist at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. He is internationally recognised for his research into the causes, prevention and control of cancer, particularly those of the skin and gastrointestinal tracts. Professor Whiteman’s research findings have been translated into policy and practice, and he holds leadership positions in national […]