Professor David Thorburn
Professor Thorburn is one of Australia’s foremost genetics experts, with a focus on mitochondrial energy generation disorders, and is widely recognised as a world leader in inherited metabolic diseases. For the past 25 years, he has worked with children with disabling and potentially lethal mitochondrial disorders, discovering genes that cause these conditions and developing effective […]
Professor Prashanthan Sanders
Professor Sanders is a clinician-scientist leading both clinical and research groups at the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at The University of Adelaide, SAHMRI and Royal Adelaide Hospital. He is a cardiac electrophysiologist who is an international authority of heart rhythm disorders. His multi-disciplinary program has an established translational focus. He has 395 peer-reviewed publications […]
Professor Jo Salmon
Professor Jo Salmon has spent 20 years researching the impact of sitting on health and the effectiveness of interventions to reduce youth sitting time. This applied research has been adopted by government health and education departments for implementation in schools nationally and internationally. Her research has also informed children’s physical activity and sedentary guidelines in […]
Professor Anthony Rodgers
Professor Anthony Rodgers has played an internationally recognised role in measuring major risks to health, being appointed by WHO to author their annual report. He co-initiated numerous landmark studies in cardiovascular disease prevention/treatment, including the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, involving more than 50 studies and 600,000 participants. Rodgers also developed the first m-Health smoking […]
Professor Bruce Robinson
Professor Bruce Robinson is a UWA Professor of Medicine, an experienced lung specialist and a leading research scientist. He is Director of an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence focussed on getting the body’s immune system to fight cancer, particularly asbestos-induced cancers, and on ‘cracking the code’ of cancer using gene sequencing to provide new targets […]
Professor Christopher Proud
Professor Chris Proud has made numerous important contributions to understanding the fundamental mechanisms that control the function of animal cells. In particular, he studies how nutrients, hormones and other signals control gene expression. This is integral to understanding diverse diseases including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders. He collaborates widely and his work has […]
Professor Kelly-Anne Phillips
Professor Kelly-Anne Phillips is a medical oncologist and researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. As a highly productive clinician-researcher, she treats women affected with breast cancer and runs a prevention clinic for those at high risk, while concurrently leading internationally recognised research related to breast cancer genetics and treatment. Her research, and related health […]
Professor Marc Pellegrini
Professor Marc Pellegrini is an infectious diseases physician, Division Head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Honorary Professor at The University of Melbourne, Honorary NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, and member of NHMRC Translational Faculty and Assigner Academy. His research bridges the gap between basic science and translation into the clinic. He is internationally recognised […]
Professor Philip O’Connell
Professor Philip O’Connell is a clinician scientist and an international leader in transplantation medicine. He is director of one the largest transplant centres in Australia and is a Centre Director at the Westmead Institute of Medical Research. As immediate past-president of The Transplantation Society he provided international leadership on science, education and public policy in […]
Professor Donald Nutbeam
Don Nutbeam is Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and a Senior Advisor at the Sax Institute. His career has included senior leadership positions in universities, government, and health services. He is a public health scientist with research interests in social and behavioural determinants of health, and in the development and evaluation […]
Professor John Miners
Professor John Miners has made sustained contributions to the characterisation of the enzymatic basis of drug metabolism, which underpins the individualisation of drug therapy in humans. His research has: identified sources of variability in drug metabolism, especially drug-drug interactions and pharmacogenetics; characterised the substrate and inhibitor selectivities and structure-function relationships of the key drug metabolising […]
Dr John McHutchison
Many researchers have contributed to the discovery of therapies offering permanent cure for virtually all Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infected patients. However, none has been leading the field in all its incremental and seminal stages more than Dr. McHutchison. His intellectual and clinical research talents resulted in him developing the antiviral drug combinations, Sovaldi®, Harvoni® […]
Professor James McCarthy
Professor James McCarthy is a clinician scientist with an outstanding record of achievement in translational research in parasitic diseases. Although his most notable recent achievements relate to the development of a unique malaria human challenge system that has transformed early stage drug development for malaria. Over his career he has made internationally significant contributions to […]
Professor Richard Lock
Professor Richard Lock is an acknowledged authority in the field of leukaemia. His work has not only resulted in the most clinically relevant experimental model to investigate paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, he was also the first to draw a direct link between anti-cancer drug-induced cell cycle arrest and their effects on proteins that directly regulate […]
Professor Stephen Leeder
Professor Stephen Leeder AO is the director of the Research and Education Network, Western Sydney Local Health District. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at The University of Sydney and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Epidemiology. Professor Leeder’s academic career includes public health research, educational development and policy […]
Professor Martin Lavin
Professor Martin Lavin has demonstrated distinguished research leadership at multiple levels over many years making important contributions to health and medical research. His major focus has been on unravelling the defects in rare human genetic disorders such as Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T), characterized by a defect in the DNA damage response, neurodegeneration and cancer susceptibility. His research […]
Professor Stephen Kent
Professor Kent is Australia’s leading authority and research scientist on the search for an HIV vaccine. He is an infectious diseases physician and scientist dedicated to basic, translational and clinical research on viral immunity. He has over 240 peer-reviewed publications in the field of viral immunity. He leads a 30-person team of dedicated scientists towards […]
Professor Anne Kelso
Professor Anne Kelso is an immunologist who has made a substantial and sustained contribution to Australian health and medical sciences through research on T lymphocyte-mediated immunity and influenza; service to national and international scientific societies and institutions; and centre directorships in which she fostered the development of novel vaccine technologies, and strengthened Australia’s position in […]
Professor Shitij Kapur
Professor Shitij Kapur, is a psychiatrist neuroscientist and has devoted his academic career to finding better treatments for Schizophrenia. His study of anti-psychotic drugs using brain imaging and clinical trials has helped understand why some patients respond while others get side-effects, and he has contributed to better dosing and timing of these medications – leading […]
Professor Jonathan Kalman
Professor Jonathan Kalman is an NHMRC practitioner fellow who leads both clinical and research groups in the Department of Cardiac Arrhythmias at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne. He has a national and international reputation as a leader in the field of atrial arrhythmias and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications (H Index […]