Professor Alan Cass
Professor Cass, Director of the Menzies School of Health Research, is a clinician-researcher who has achieved international recognition in both nephrology and Indigenous health. He has a strong track record of leadership across clinical trials, public health, health services and policy-related research. He has a very strong track record of research translation into policy and […]
Professor Donald Chalmers
Professor Chalmers has made sustained, independent and constructive contributions, nationally and internationally to promote education, research and professional interactions in health and medical research ethics through my publications, reports and appointments. He has made valuable public contributions by submissions to enquiries and committee work, principally for the NHMRC, particularly as a past Chair of AHEC. […]
Professor John Chalmers
Professor John Chalmers was admitted to the Australian Academy of Science (1987) for his studies elucidating the neurotransmitters and brain pathways involved in baroreflex control of blood pressure and contributing to experimental hypertension. He chaired the guidelines committee of the WHO and the International Society of Hypertension(1988-2000). He helped found the George Institute for Global […]
Professor Anne Chang
Professor Chang has substantially advanced clinical medicine through her research in improving the management of chronic cough in children, bronchiectasis and asthma. She is a leading clinicalresearcher with international recognition in the areas of cough, bronchiectasis and evidence-based medicine related to respiratory conditions in children. She has achieved many ‘world’s first’ including a description of […]
Professor Helen Christensen
Professor Helen Christensen is highly regarded nationally and internationally as a leader in the development of “automated” e health applications to deliver therapeutic interventions for anxiety, depression and suicide risk, an approach that overturned the conventional wisdom that face to face clinician contact was needed to treat mental illness. Her websites are used by millions […]
Professor David Cooper (Vale)
Since HIV first emerged in the early 1980s, Professor David Cooper has been at the forefront, scientifically and clinically, of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Australia and around the world, through both clinical and laboratory research. He has been involved with antiretroviral therapy for 30 years and has publications arising from the development and use […]
Professor Jamie Cooper
Professor Jamie Cooper has demonstrated outstanding leadership while managing an expansive portfolio of research in intensive care medicine and mentoring the next generation of clinician-scientists. In his multi-faceted career at Monash University and The Alfred, Professor Cooper has played significant leadership roles as clinician, researcher, educator and mentor. Under his leadership, the ANZIC Research Centre […]
Professor Mark Cooper
Professor Cooper is a previous Australia Fellow funded by NHMRC as well as Chief Scientific Officer at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. He has a strong track record in biomedical research with my main area of research being in the field of diabetes and its complications, in particular renal disease and atherosclerosis. He has […]
Professor Ross Coppel
Professor Coppel has made original and important contributions in the study of malaria, primary biliary cirrhosis, tuberculosis and bioinformatics. His areas of molecular study include antigen discovery for malaria vaccines, identification of autoantigens to study the autoimmune response and disease etiology, key proteins involved in cell wall synthesis of mycobacteria and development of advanced genomic […]
Professor Brendan Crabb
Professor Brendan Crabb has made a number of discoveries of major significance relating to our understanding of human malaria, a field in which he is a major internationally recognised figure. He was primarily responsible for the discovery of the malaria translocon, a protein machine that constitutes perhaps the leading new drug target in malaria. He […]
Professor Suzanne Crowe
Professor Suzanne Crowe is a physician-scientist who co-founded the first HIV clinic in Melbourne (Fairfield Hospital, 1984). Her internationally-recognized research focusses on two areas of global importance: HIV pathogenesis and HIV care in resource-limited countries. Her findings inform clinical practice and current “cure” research. Her co-developed point-of-care CD4 test, licensed to Omega, UK, will provide […]
Professor Anthony Cunningham
Professor Tony Cunningham’s research focus is the immunology and pathogenesis of virus infections in humans, and the development of new vaccine candidates and therapeutic strategies. His work on herpes simplex immunology led directly to the only (partly) successful vaccine candidate for genital and neonatal herpes. He remains at the forefront of this field. He then […]
Professor Andrew Cuthbertson
Professor Stephen Davis
Professor Stephen Davis is an international leader in clinical neurology and clinical neuroscience research. He is the Director of the largest Australian Neurology Department and directs a translational neuroscience research facility, the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital/University of Melbourne. He is the PI of an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence Grant. He […]
Professor David de Kretser
As Professor of Anatomy and Medicine and founding Director of the Monash Institute of Medical Research, Professor de Krester’s research led to 494 refereed publications and 170 Chapters. He served as President of the International Society of Andrology. His team isolated inhibin and follistatin as FSH regulators and showed that activin A, an FSH stimulator […]
Professor Annette Dobson
Professor Dobson has contributed to health and medical science through the design and conduct of large-scale, long-running epidemiological studies that have improved understandings of population health issues, methodology of measurement and statistical analysis, and the education of future generations of expert biostatisticians. Her work includes leading Australia’s contribution to the world’s largest epidemiological study of […]
Professor Peter Doherty
Professor Geoffrey Donnan
The Director of The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health has demonstrated global leadership in research, health policy and implementation with over 400 research publications and h-index of 66. He has investigated stroke, its underlying mechanisms and conducted therapeutic trials with clinical translation. As President of the World Stroke Organisation (WSO) and founding Medical […]
Professor Stephen Duckett
Dr Stephen Duckett has made an exceptional contribution to health services research and health care delivery in Australia. He has held senior health care leadership positions in Australia and Canada, with a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas as diverse as hospital funding (introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals) and quality (new […]
Professor Sandra Eades
Professor Sandra Eades is Domain Head Aboriginal Health and Disadvantaged Communities at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute with key expertise in Indigenous child and adolescent health, Indigenous tobacco use and randomized controlled trials in Indigenous health. The Aboriginal Health Domain incorporates a national program of research and related activities with hubs in Melbourne, Alice […]