Professor Sally Dunwoodie
Professor Sally Dunwoodie is an acclaimed embryologist and geneticist who has made major contributions to our mechanistic understanding of embryogenesis and the causation of congenital malformations of the skeleton and heart. Her insights into how environmental factors impact gene activity in the embryo are foundational, and in particular how gene variants interact with environmental insults […]
Professor Tammy Hoffmann
Professor Tammy Hoffman is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Lead, Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University. She has published 198 papers (H index 38, 6117 total citations). She has received national and international recognition in her primary discipline (Occupational Therapy, OT) and current field (Clinical Epidemiology) and substantially contributed […]
Professor Richard Kitching
Professor Richard Kitching is a Nephrologist physician-scientist who has made sustained and important contributions to our understanding of kidney disease. These include defining the roles of T lymphocytes and their subsets in mediating kidney injury, and the protective role of regulatory T cells in immune kidney disease. He has defined key parts of molecules that […]
Professor Alan Cowman
Professor Alan Cowman is an expert in the field of malaria and his work has determined how malaria parasites evade lethal effects of important antimalarial drugs. This knowledge allowed detection of drug resistant malaria parasites to understand prevalence and spread of drug resistance, important for developing public policy on antimalarial use. He developed tools to […]
Professor Stephen Jan
Professor Stephen Jan is an acknowledged authority in the field of health economics, especially as it relates to the economics of noncommunicable disease. The outcomes of his research have informed decisions around investment in health programs nationally and internationally, as well as contributed significantly to global dialogues around universal health coverage. His frequently world-first research […]
Professor Jonathan Craig
Professor Jonathan Craig is a Paediatric Nephrologist and Clinical Epidemiologist. He has published over 700 research articles cited >29,300 times, and his h index is 72 (Scopus). CIA on a current NHMRC Program Grant and a Centre of Research Excellence, he has supervised >30 PhD students to successful completion. His research has led to better […]
Professor Pankaj Sah
Professor Sah has made seminal contributions to understanding the neural circuits underlying learning and memory formation in the mammalian brain. His pioneering studies have delineated the local circuits in the amygdala, a region of the brain critical in assigning emotional salience to events, as well as the receptors engaged during amygdala-dependent learning. He has also […]
Professor John F Bertram
Professor John Bertram is internationally recognised for his outstanding research contributions in kidney developmental biology, developmental origins of kidney and cardiovascular health and disease, and quantitative imaging. He has shown that low nephron number in kidneys is linked to high blood pressure and kidney disease in animals and several human populations. These findings have contributed […]
Professor Sandy Middleton
Professor Sandy Middleton is Director of the Nursing Research Institute (NRI) at Australian Catholic University and St Vincent’s Health Australia. She has established the NRI as one of Australia’s largest and most productive nursing research collaboratives. Relative to opportunity (0.5 FTE academic appointment) Professor Middleton’s productivity is high: 124 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high quality journals […]
Professor Monica Slavin
Professor Monica Slavin is Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and a Centre of Research Excellence in Infections in cancer. She is an international leader in the specialised field of infections in patients whose immune systems are compromised. Whilst involved in direct patient care, she has built a research […]
Professor Caroline Homer
Professor Caroline Homer AO is a leading midwifery researcher in Australia with an international reputation as a leader in maternal and newborn health care and service delivery. She obtained her PhD in 2001 and since then has led research and development projects in Australia and internationally; especially in relation to health services delivery, reproductive, maternal […]
Professor Mark Woodward
Professor Mark Woodward is one of the world’s most widely published and highly-cited biostatistician/epidemiologists. He has played a leadership role in many landmark research projects in related fields, including sex/gender differences in non-communicable diseases; epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases in Asia; vascular risk scores; prevention of complications of diabetes; causes and outcomes of renal disease; and […]
Professor Paul Lambert
Professor Paul Lambert is internationally recognised for contributions to understanding the role of papillomavirus oncogenes in cancer including the roles of the papillomavirus oncogenes E5, E6 and E7 and the role of estrogen and its receptor in cervical carcinogenesis. His current work is focussed on applying this knowledge to develop novel therapies. Professor Lambert has […]
Professor Tuan Nguyen
Professor Nguyen is highly recognised nationally and internationally as a leader in the field of osteoporosis research. Among much pioneering and influential work (>25,000 citations, H index 76), his development of assessment tools for identifying people at high-risk of fracture has helped millions of people worldwide. As a principal investigator of the Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology […]
Professor David Reutens
Professor David Reutens has established an international reputation for excellence in research in imaging and neuroscience and has mentored 70 PhD students and clinical and post-doctoral fellows. He is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Advanced Imaging at The University of Queensland, and has played a significant role in the development of facilities for […]
Professor Timothy Davis
Professor Timothy Davis has made many key contributions to the clinical management of diabetes and malaria. He runs the Fremantle Diabetes Study which has provided unique epidemiological insights into diabetes management and complications, has contributed to transformative diabetes intervention trials, and has been actively involved in formulating local and national treatment policies and guidelines. His […]
Professor Bruce Campbell
Professor Bruce Campbell is an internationally recognised stroke neurologist whose research into brain imaging and emergency treatment of stroke has led to global changes in clinical practice, particularly through the widespread use of CT-perfusion imaging and endovascular thrombectomy for ischaemic stroke. He led the EXTEND-IA trial of endovascular thrombectomy (NEJM 2015, >1780 cites) that used […]
Professor Jennifer Hoy
Professor Jennifer Hoy was appointed the inaugural Professor Director of HIV Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University in 2008. Prior to this, she established and directed the internationally recognised Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (1988-2008). Prof Hoy herself is internationally recognised for her research and expertise in HIV and comorbidities. Her […]
Professor David Johnson
Professor David Johnson is a national leader in basic and clinical research in renal medicine, particularly in acute kidney damage and in peritoneal dialysis, with over 800 publications and 100 invited international keynote and plenary research presentations. He is founder director of a major renal research unit in Brisbane, and for over 10 years has […]
Professor Peter Wormald
Professor Wormald is Chair of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Professor of Skull Base Surgery in the University of Adelaide. He leads a 28-person research team examining the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis and has led the paradigm shift in the understanding of the role of bacteria in this common disease. He has developed numerous surgical […]