Professor Kathryn Refshauge
Professor Refshauge is an outstanding musculoskeletal researcher, of high international standing. Her research in back and neck pain has changed practice among educators and clinicians. She developed new care models and stimulated vigorous international debate about neck manipulation. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker for prestigious international conferences, and contributor to book chapters, […]
Professor Sheena Reilly
Professor Sheena Reilly has generated a substantial body of original research in childhood communication disorders and swallowing problems, as displayed by her publications and their impact on clinical practice in this discipline. Sheena’s Early Language in Victoria Study has rapidly become internationally significant in the evolution of language impairment. It’s the only specialist cohort study […]
Professor Karen Reynolds
Bridging the divide between research and industry, Professor Karen Reynolds is considered as one of Australia’s leading researchers in biomedical engineering. She is motivated by her passion to make a practical difference, and uses her experience and expertise together with her wide network of industry and clinical contacts to bring together multiple stakeholders to develop […]
Professor Michael Roberts
Professor Roberts is a pharmacist who, during 40 years as a practitioner, academic, and NHMRC SPRF, has focussed on medical research. His outputs include: H-index of 48, 6 books, 480 papers/chapters; 105 invited international talks; >$38m grants from NHMRC, ARC etc. He has been an APSA President, ASCEPT Councillor, University Head of School, University Research […]
Professor Andrew Roberts
Professor Andrew Roberts is a world-leader in translational research into blood cancers. His laboratory work has discovered the function of key proteins in blood cells, and guided the development of new drugs to target BCL2. His clinical trial research has led to advances in therapy for patients undergoing donor stem cell transplants, and pioneered targeted […]
Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld
Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld is an Australian and international leader in neurosurgery and military surgery. He has conducted seminal research in brain and spine injury, paediatric epilepsy, stem cell applications and bionic vision. He is Founding Director of the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) and is a champion of interdisciplinary research. He is Professor of […]
Professor Pamela Russell (Vale)
Highly creative scientist, Professor Pam Russell, initiated cyclophosphamide therapy for autoimmunity and is internationally recognized for generating urological cancer models for study. She directed the Oncology Research Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney for 17 years, published 200 papers, patents, procured $34m in grants and mentored postgraduates and 30 postdoctoral fellows. Discoveries include antibodies to […]
Professor Ingrid Scheffer
Professor Ingrid Scheffer is a physician-scientist whose work as a paediatric neurologist and epileptologist at the University of Melbourne and Florey Institute has led the field of epilepsy genetics over more than 20 years, in collaboration with Professor Samuel Berkovic and molecular geneticists. This resulted in identification of the first epilepsy gene and many more […]
Professor Peter Schofield
Professor Peter Schofield is Executive Director and CEO of NeuRA – Neuroscience Research Australia – one of Australia’s leading independent neuroscience research centres, and Professor of Medicine at UNSW. His research has fundamentally altered the understanding of neurotransmitter signaling and has identified the role of genes that lead to neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders such as […]
Professor Jonathan Shaw
Professor Jonathan Shaw is one of the world leaders in the epidemiology of diabetes. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, has over 2,700 citations annually, and was one of only seven Australians listed in the Clinical Medicine section of the Thomson Reuters “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014”. His work has ranged from […]
Professor Andrew Sinclair
Professor Sinclair’s groundbreaking research, including the discovery of the Y-linked SRY (testis) gene, underpin our understanding of normal and dysfunctional gonad development and its impact on children with Disorders of Sex Development. Importantly, he has translated his work into the clinic by developing much-needed rapid and accurate diagnostic tests. His research excellence, along with his […]
Professor Peter Sly
Professor Peter Sly is an acknowledged pioneer in understanding the early origins of lung disease and the implications for lung health in the long term. He has discovered major risk factors for the development of asthma and for the onset of cystic fibrosis lung disease, leading to a number of testable hypotheses to prevent or […]
Professor Stephen Smith
Professor Stephen Smith led the creation of the United Kingdom’s first Academic Health Science Centre with the merger of two NHS Acute Trusts and Imperial College London, becoming the first CEO and Principal in 2007 of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. These organisations are now an integral part of the NHS research structure that puts […]
Professor Stephen Stick
Professor Stick is Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Research Strategy Leader at the Telethon Kids Institute and Clinical Professor, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, UWA. He has been a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow since 2000 and is acknowledged as a leader in early childhood lung diseases. His research interests […]
Professor Nicholas Talley
Professor Nick Talley was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (and Dean) of the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2010. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida where he held the rank of Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology. He currently holds […]
Professor Hugh Taylor
Melbourne Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor holds the Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that, he was Head of the University of Melbourne Department of Ophthalmology and founded the Centre for Eye Research Australia. Professor Taylor’s current work particularly focuses on Aboriginal eye health including the elimination of […]
Professor Maree Teesson
Professor Teesson is Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, UNSW. Her vision is to build the world’s leading dedicated translational research program for the prevention and treatment of comorbid mental health and substance abuse. She leads a large vibrant research centre (over 70 staff) […]
Professor Ranjeny Thomas
Professor Ranjeny Thomas is an NHMRC Research Fellow recognized as an international leader in the field of antigen-specific tolerance in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). During the last 5 years, she reported the first clinical trial of antigen-specific dendritic cell therapy in RA, and attracted investment from the US-based Johnson and Johnson group of companies into Dendright, […]
Professor John Thompson
Professor John Thompson is widely recognised as one of the world’s foremost authorities on melanoma and a leading surgical oncologist. He has published over 650 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He developed the isolated limb infusion regional chemotherapy technique and was one of the pioneers for sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma. He has been a […]
Professor Joseph Trapani
Professor Joe Trapani, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FFSc (RCPA) is currently Executive Director Cancer Research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the inaugural Head of the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at the University of Melbourne. Joe has made many seminal and original contributions to the field of molecular and cellular immunology, with impact […]