Professor Stephen Jane
Professor Stephen Jane is Head of Central Clinical School, Professor of Medicine, Monash University, Director of Research, Alfred Health and Acting Head of Clinical Haematology and The Australian Centre for Blood Diseases. He was previously a Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC, Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne and Director of the Bone Marrow Research […]
Professor Garry Jennings
Professor Garry Jennings is Director of Baker IDI. He is Past President of the Asia Pacific Society of Hypertension, the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI), and of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia and Head of a WHO Collaborating Centre. He is Associate Editor of the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. […]
Professor David Kaye
Professor Kaye is an internationally recognised clinician-scientist working who has made a major contribution to the understanding and treatment of heart failure. Prof Kaye is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at Baker IDI and an active senior Cardiologist in the Heart Failure- Transplant Unit at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Professor Kaye holds numerous research […]
Professor Anthony Keech
Professor Anthony Keech has made sustained important contributions to clinical and basic research to improve Australian and international health through his career, and continues to do so. He is an internationally-renowned cardiologist and clinical triallist with formal expertise in epidemiology, who co-directs the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre in Sydney, with over 160 personnel. He has […]
Professor Rajiv Khanna
Professor Khanna is an internationally recognized Translational Immunologist who has made major contributions in the development of cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of virus-associated cancers and infectious complications. He has also developed novel immune-based diagnostic tools which have been successfully commercialised and implemented in clinical settings. He is the founding Director of the QIMR Centre […]
Professor Michael Kidd
Professor Michael Kidd AM is an academic general practitioner with a distinguished national and international reputation in health and medical science as a researcher, educator and medical leader. He is a highly regarded international leader in general practice and primary care, has a strong record of advocacy and public service, and has made many contributions […]
Professor Christine Kilpatrick
Although for several decades Professor Kilpatrick contributed to improving health outcomes through clinical practice and research, her key contribution and of relevance to Fellowship of the Academy has been her leadership roles in which she has ensured a strong and sustainable integration between medical research and health care delivery. This has been achieved through articulating […]
Professor Bronwyn Kingwell
Professor Bronwyn Kingwell’s fundamental and clinical research in arterial biomechanics has driven new approaches for the management of arterial diseases. She has pioneered the transition of detailed cellular and molecular studies of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in laboratory models, in particular with regard to glucose metabolism, to a human context. This work has opened major new […]
Professor Sharad Kumar
Professor Sharad Kumar’s ground-breaking work in biomedical sciences has been recognised through prestigious fellowships, national and international awards, and election to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science. He has made seminal discoveries that have significantly contributed to the understanding of human diseases such as cancer, inflammation and hypertension. His publications have received extensive […]
Professor Nigel Laing
Professor Nigel Laing is a world-renowned scientist whose work has turned Australia into an international reference centre for neuromuscular diseases. He has identified more than twenty human disease genes and has the rare honour of having a disease named after him. He established the premier diagnostic laboratory for neurogenetic disorders in Australasia, receiving patient samples […]
Professor Richard Larkins
Professor Richard Larkins has combined clinical work in endocrinology and general medicine with research into the causes and complications of diabetes, vitamin D metabolism and other aspects of diabetes and endocrinology. As a clinical academic he was the James Stewart Professor of Medicine for 14 years and Dean of the Faculty of MDHS at the […]
Professor Peter Leedman
Professor Leedman is an internationally recognised physician scientist who combines academic translational cancer research and teaching, with running the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and clinical endocrinology. His research has led to several key discoveries on hormone action in cancer as well as patents and company development (MiReven). He has had many senior leadership […]
Professor Sharon Lewin
Professor Sharon Lewin is the inaugural director of the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne; consultant physician, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellow. She is an infectious diseases physician and basic scientist and an internationally recognised expert on HIV disease […]
Professor Julio Licinio
Professor Licinio is an internationally recognised translational research leader in major depression, its biology and metabolic outcomes. His h-index is 60, with 18000 citations and publications in leading journals, such as Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, and Lancet. He is an RANZCP Fellow with AHPRA registration as specialist in psychiatry. He is a member of the […]
Professor Geoffrey Lindeman
Professor Geoffrey Lindeman and his team identified breast stem and progenitor cells that generate all ductal tissue in the breast. His group’s discoveries helped define breast development from long-lived stem cells to progenitor and mature epithelial cells, providing a new framework for studying the molecular and cellular events that give rise to breast cancer. His […]
Professor Angel Lopez
Professor Angel Lopez is an outstanding Australian scientist with an international reputation in human cytokines or growth factors, particularly on studies of cytokine families with a shared receptor subunit. He has made several breakthroughs that have illuminated how these cytokines exert their biological activities and revealed new paradigms that apply to the cytokine superfamily at […]
Professor Stephen Lord
Professor Lord has pursued work in the areas of applied neurology, instability, falls and fractures in older people and clinical groups. He has made major contributions in these fields with studies spanning basic physiology, risk factor identification, development and evaluation of randomised controlled trials and guideline and policy development. His evidence-based risk assessment tools are […]
Professor David Mackey
Professor David Mackey is a world leader in the translation of genetic eye disease research into treatment. Gene discovery allows accurate diagnosis, predictive testing and genetically guided treatment. David has also evaluated the ethics and cost effectiveness of gene based testing. He is President of the International Society of Genetic Eye Disease and Retinoblastoma; a […]
Professor Maria Makrides
Professor Makrides is an international leader in maternal-infant nutrition and is recognised for her work investigating the health effects of dietary fatty acids, iron and novel dietary ingredients in the perinatal period. Her work has made significant contributions to changes in the composition of infant formulae and on changing international food laws (Codex Alimentarius), which […]
Professor Barry Marshall
Professor Barry Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were […]