Professor Alison Kitson
Alison is an internationally renowned Translational Health Scientist and Nursing Leader. Her sustained work over the last 25 years has resulted in significant breakthroughs in our understanding of how evidence spreads (or doesn’t) through health systems. She has influenced thousands of practitioners and hundreds of researchers, post-doctoral and PhD students through her research and scholarship […]
Professor Matthew Kiernan
Professor Matthew Kiernan is a clinical neurologist and neuroscientist at the forefront of research into human neurophysiology. His pioneering work in nerve excitability techniques has produced novel insights into disease mechanisms, and based on these developments he has instituted new treatment trials. His research innovations have delineated properties of central and peripheral nerves and their susceptibility […]
Professor Anthony Kelleher
Professor Kelleher is a clinician scientist whose work has significantly advanced our understanding of interactions between HIV and the immune system. Focused on human T-cells and their manipulation by therapeutics, he’s made seminal contributions to the field including in relation to co-evolution of HIV and immune responses and development of a novel way of virus […]
Professor John Kaldor
John Kaldor is an internationally-renowned and esteemed public health researcher whose work in Australia and the Asia-Pacific has focused on the development of infectious disease control strategies. He established public health surveillance systems that provided key support for once controversial initiatives in HIV prevention, such as a needle and syringe distribution, by demonstrating effectiveness. Also, […]
Professor Ricky Johnstone
Professor Ricky Johnstone is a recognised leader in the area of cancer epigenetics and therapeutics. He has developed sophisticated pre-clinical models to elucidate the mechanisms of action of small molecule histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) and mechanisms of intrinsic and acquired tumor cell resistance to HDACi. Professor Johnstone has developed, tested and validated rational combinations of small […]
Professor Philip Hugenholtz
Professor Hugenholtz is a microbiologist who has made landmark contributions in the field of culture-independent analysis of microorganisms. He discovered and characterised numerous previously unrecognised major bacterial and archaeal lineages each with greater evolutionary divergence than animals and plants combined. He has been instrumental in the development and application of metagenomics, the genome-based characterisation of […]
Emeritus Professor John Hopwood
Professor John Hopwood established and has led the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit since 1978. The Unit has been continually successful in basic and applied research into lysosomal disorders (LSD), and has made significant contributions to diagnostics and population screening methods for detection of LSD, and developing and applying novel treatments to humans. His leadership has […]
Professor Gerald Holtmann
During the last 30 years, Professor Holtmann has been very fortunate to be able to drive a paradigm shift for the pathophysiologic concepts of functional gastrointestinal disorders. While initially considered a ‘psychosomatic disorder’, his work identified genetic risk factors (e.g. the GNB3 polymorphism) and established a now widely accepted concept of minimal systemic inflammation as […]
Professor Rodney Hicks
Professor Hicks has made major contributions to the care of patients with cancer through his pioneering work with positron emission tomography (PET), which has now become a routine imaging test for selecting and monitoring cancer therapies. By applying this technology in translational research he has helped develop new cancer therapies, especially targeted drugs for malignancies […]
Professor Mark Harris
Professor Harris is highly regarded for his research into the prevention and management of chronic disease in general practice and community health services, vulnerable population (including Aboriginal and refugee health) and access to primary health care. This has given rise to over 300 publications in the national and international peer review research literature and is […]
Professor David Handelsman
David Handelsman is a world-leading authority on androgen physiology, pharmacology and toxicology arising from his sustained and wide-ranging clinical, experimental and public health research and discoveries in elucidating androgen action, use and misuse. He became Australia’s first Professor of Andrology (1996), created Australia’s first hospital Andrology Department (1999) and is inaugural Director, ANZAC Research Institute […]
Professor Andrew Grulich
Professor Andrew Grulich is an internationally renowned authority in Immune deficiency, infection and cancer and Transmission and prevention of HIV. His work has documented how immune function influences cancer risk, and demonstrated effective HIV prevention in homosexual men. His finding that infection-related cancers occur at increased risk in transplant recipients overturned thinking about the role […]
Professor Gregory Goodall
Prof Goodall is a world leader in the biology of RNA and cancer progression. He has combined innovation with thoroughness to make discoveries that open new areas in RNA biology for development and exploitation. He has made seminal contributions to the understanding of mechanisms governing gene activity in cancer, through control of mRNA activity, regulation […]
Professor Jozef Gécz
Citation Professor Gecz is leading international expert in genetics of paediatric neurological disorders, intellectual disability, epilepsy, autism and cerebral palsy. This is documented by his 277 scientific publications accumulating in excess of 15000 citations. Professor Gecz discovered >200 human disease genes and works tirelessly to translate this new knowledge into better health for the affected individuals and their families. He is […]
Professor Katharina Gaus (Vale)
Scientia Professor Katharina Gaus is an acknowledged authority in the fields of cellular immunology and molecular microscopy. Her work has not only completely overturned our understanding of T cell activation, but we can now image and map signalling molecules in T cell synapses with nanometre precision. Her frequently world-first research achievements are matched by her […]
Professor Paul Foster
Laureate Professor Paul Foster, DSc (ANU), undertakes research which has transformed the way scientists understand the fundamental molecular and cellular processes that regulate allergic inflammation, and how they contribute to the pathogenesis of asthma and eosinophilic disorders. These include seminal findings on how cytokines (interleukins (IL)) derived from T-helper cells contribute to allergic disease. Notably, […]
Professor Wendy Erber
A Rhodes Scholar in 1982, Wendy Erber has had a distinguished scientific career in haematology with significant discoveries in malignant blood disorders translating into diagnostic pathology, and improving understanding of the formation of blood cellular components. This work has been recognised with many articles published in high impact journals. Wendy is internationally acknowledged as an outstanding clinician-scientist, combining active clinical consultancy with research and an academic career. […]
Professor Christopher Del Mar (Vale)
I am an academic general practitioner, currently Professor of Public Health. Formerly Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), and simultaneously Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University – where I successfully started the first private Australian university medical program – I was previously Professor of General Practice at the University of Queensland. A well-known evidence-based practice expert, I have […]
Professor David Currow
Professor David Currow has contributed internationally to the ongoing development of palliative and supportive care. He is one of the 10 most published palliative care researchers in the world, and has attracted competitive funding and contract work worth more than $70million.His research is now directly influencing clinical practice, policy and funding around the world. He […]
Professor Donna Cross
Professor Cross has an excellent international reputation, demonstrated by her involvement in five multi-country and nine country-based research consortiums/collaborations. She has received $18.5m+ for 52 research projects to advance children’s health. She founded two research centres, mentoring 120 employees, 450+ volunteers and supervising 30 higher-degree students, including helping them to publish 48 papers. She facilitates […]