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Prof Richard Larkins, AO
Professor Larkins has had a distinguished career in medicine, scientific research and academic management. He was Vice Chancellor of Monash University from 2003 - 2009 and Chair of Universities Australia from 2008 - 2009. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
From 1998 to 2003 Prof Larkins was Dean of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne and held the James Stewart Chair of Medicine at Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1984 to 1997.
His research and clinical work were in diabetes and endocrinology. In 1982 Professor Larkins was awarded the Eric Susman Prize for medical research and in 2002 he was awarded the Sir William Upjohn Medal for distinguished services to medicine and a Centenary of Federation Medal.
Professor Larkins was a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council from 1977-2000, President of the Endocrine Society of Australia from 1982-1984, chairman of the Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council from 1991 to 1995, chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia from 1997-2000, a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council from 1997-2000, and President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians from 2000-2002.
In 2002 Professor Larkins was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to medicine and health.
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Australian National University
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Prof Andrew Cockburn
Professor
Cockburn received an honours degree in botany and PhD in zoology at
Monash University before postdoctoral assignments at University of
California Berkeley, Monash, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology and the Research
School of Biological Sciences at ANU. He joined the Zoology Department
at ANU as a Lecturer in 1984, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in
1989 and Reader in 1990. Later in 1990 he was appointed to the
foundation Professorship of the newly formed School of Botany and
Zoology, of which he was Head for a total of 13 years. He is currently
Director of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment and a
Professor of Evolutionary Ecology in the Division of Evolution, Ecology
& Genetics in the Research School of Biology.
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Prof Chris Goodnow
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Goodnow has illuminated the mechanism of immunological self-tolerance
through innovative integration of mouse molecular genetics with cellular
immunology. His discoveries have changed our concepts of how
self-tolerance is acquired and autoimmune diseases are prevented, by
revealing that self-reactive lymphocytes are controlled by a series of
mechanisms serving as checkpoints at each step along the process of
antibody formation. He has elucidated how these checkpoints achieve
self-nonself discrimination, through an ability of antigen receptors to
switch between signalling lymphocyte proliferation or triggering
tolerance responses via qualitative changes in the intracellular second
messengers elicited.
After
a BSc(Vet) and Veterinary Medicine degree at the University of Sydney,
Goodnow trained in molecular and cellular immunology at Stanford
University with Mark M Davis, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
with Sir Gustav Nossal, and at the University of Sydney with Antony
Basten. From 1990-1997, Goodnow headed a laboratory at Stanford
University Medical School as an Assistant Investigator of the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute. Since 1997, he has been Professor of
Immunology and Genetics at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at
The Australian National University, and is currently Head of the
Department of Immunology. Goodnow was the Founding Director of the
Australian Phenomics Facility – a major national research facility for
mouse molecular genetics. In translating his scientific expertise,
Goodnow served on the founding scientific advisory board of Illumina Inc
– now a leading genetic analysis technology company – and was founder
and chief scientific officer for Phenomix Corp, a private biotechnology
company with treatments for diabetes and infection in clinical
development.
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CSIRO
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Prof Louise Ryan
After 23 years as Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard
University (the last 2.5 years as Chair), Louise Ryan took up her post
as Chief of CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences in February
2009. She is leading a group of 150 people in mathematical and
statistical research areas as diverse as financial risk, climate change
and cell biology.
Dr Ryan is a distinguished Biostatistician and is
internationally recognised for her contributions to statistical methods
for cancer and environmental health research. She has authored or
co-authored over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and her own
statistical research focuses on developing computationally efficient
approaches to the spatio-temporal analysis of large health databases.
Dr Ryan is currently a council member for the International
Biometric Society. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association and a Fellow of the International Statistics Institute. She
was awarded the Spieglman Award by the American Public Health
Association and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the
Environmetrics Section of the American Statistical Association.
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Dr Graeme Wooodrow
Dr Graeme Woodrow
is Chief of CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies. He has over 25
years of international experience in biotechnology in both the public
and private sectors. His industrial career has spanned the
pharmaceutical, agricultural and diagnostics industries in start-up,
medium-sized and multi-national companies.
Before joining CSIRO in 2003 he worked in technology
acquisition for Aventis CropScience (now Bayer CropScience) based in
Germany and Belgium and was head of biopharmaceuticals at Australia’s
first biotechnology company, Biotech Australia Pty Ltd. Prior to moving
into industry he did his first degree in microbiology (University of
Sydney) followed by a PhD in biochemistry (ANU) with postdoctoral
research in Cambridge, Basel and Vancouver before returning to Monash
University as a CSL Research Fellow.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological
Sciences and Engineering, a former Chairman of the Australian
Biotechnology Association (now AusBiotech), a director of the Bio21
cluster, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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EMBL
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Prof Iain Mattaj
Professor Iain
Mattaj was born in St. Andrews, Scotland. He studied biochemistry at
Edinburgh University (UK) and completed his PhD studies at the
University of Leeds (UK). Following his PhD, Prof. Mattaj carried out
postdoctoral research at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (CH) and then
at the Biocentre, University of Basel (CH) before joining EMBL
Heidelberg as a Group Leader in 1985.
He became Coordinator of the Gene Expression Unit at EMBL in
1990 before being promoted to the position of Scientific Director in
1999. Prof. Mattaj was appointed Director General in May 2005.
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Dr Silke Schumacher
Dr Silke
Schumacher studied biology at University of Hamburg (Germany) and
completed her PhD studies at the University of Paris (France). Dr
Schumacher carried out postdoctoral research at the National Institutes
of Health (USA) before joining Merck KGaA as Business Development
Manager. From 2001 to 2003 Dr Schumacher was Managing Director of Anadys
Pharmaceuticals Europe GmbH. She joined EMBL in 2003 as Cooperation
Manager and was appointed Head of International Relations and
Communications in 2005.
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Monash University
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Prof Edwina Cornish
Edwina Cornish was appointed to the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Monash University in February 2004.
She was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and concurrently Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Adelaide.
Professor Cornish has a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Melbourne. She played a key role in building one of Australia 's first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited. Under her leadership the company developed and successfully commercialised the world's first genetically modified flowers. She has been a member of the Board of the Australian Research Council and the South Australian Premier's Science and Research Council, and has served on the Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council and the Victorian Government Science and Engineering Technology Taskforce. Professor Cornish is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
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Prof Ross Coppel
Ross graduated in medicine in 1976 later working as an intern and house officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Bethnal Green Hospital, London. In 1980 he returned to Australia and commenced a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarship at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). On completion of his PhD, Ross worked as a research fellow at the WEHI in the fields of malaria and primary biliary cirrhosis. In 1994, Ross accepted a position with Monash University and took up a position as Professor of Microbiology within the Medicine Faculty and was Department Head until 1998.
Ross is a recipient of the Glaxo Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases and was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Fellow. He has authored or co-authored more than 420 scientific publications, including one book and multiple book chapters. This included a chapter in the definitive 1998 American Society of Microbiology volume on malaria. He serves on the editorial board of Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, the top journal in the field of malaria and has reviewed for numerous journals including Nature, Science, Cell, J Cell Biol, Exp Parasitol and Acta Tropica. He is a named inventor on ten patents for inventions in malaria, primary biliary cirrhosis and novel antibiotics. In 1998, he became the first person to be appointed as an independent assessor to the Federal Court of Australia when he sat with the Justice in a major case involving a biotechnology patent.
He is an internationally recognised scientist for his work in the fields of malaria and primary biliary cirrhosis. He has received funding to support his research activities from both national and international agencies including the NHMRC, the ARC, the Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health, the United States Agency for International Development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the World Health Organization.
Ross was a member of the advisory committee that oversaw bioinformatics of the malaria genome project and he administered the malaria sequence database for the World Health Organization (WHO). He was a founder of the PlasmoDB consortium, a project to develop an organism-specific database that simplifies the analysis and exploitation of genomic sequence data by biologists.
Ross is currently Deputy Dean and Director of Research of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University and his laboratory the Coppel Lab is involved in research into malaria and tuberculosis infection. In November 2000, Ross and colleagues in the Faculties of Medicine and Information Technology, along with Agriculture Victoria (Plant Biotechnology Centre) and CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences established the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium of which he remains the Director.
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The University of Adelaide
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Prof Mike Brooks
Professor Mike Brooks was appointed to the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) in July 2008. Professor Brooks is a leading international researcher in computer vision and image analysis. His work has seen wide commercial use in the security and defence industries and has resulted in international awards.
At the time of his appointment, Professor Brooks held the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Strategy), following on from his successful role as Chair of the Research Quality Framework Board, where he played a major part in auditing the University's research capability.
Professor Brooks is Research Leader of Video Surveillance within the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies at the University of Adelaide and is a former Head of the School of Computer Science, where he holds the Chair in Artificial Intelligence.
He has published numerous influential papers in the field of computer vision, image analysis and surveillance and has won many Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants for his research. Professor Brooks is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Co-Investigator with the ARC Research Network for a Secure Australia, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision, and serves on the Board of National ICT Australia.
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Dr Paul Thomas
A/Prof Thomas completed his Ph.D. at the University of Adelaide in 1994. He then moved to the National Institute for Medical Research (London, UK) and completed a 3 year post-doctoral position with the late Dr. Rosa Beddington, FRS, who was a world-leader in the field of developmental biology. In 1998, he retuned to Australia with the support of an Australian National Health and Medical Research Fellowship and established an independent research group focusing on the genetics of brain development and disease at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne. In 2006, he moved to the University of Adelaide and in 2008 was awarded a prestigious Pfizer Australia Research Fellowship.
His lab focuses on the genetics of brain and gonad development in mice and humans and in 2011 he was awarded the Royan International Research Award for his article describing the mechanism of XX male sex reversal syndromes in mice and humans. He has published more than 50 articles in international journals and is supported by Program and Project grant funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
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The University of Melbourne
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Prof Paul Gleeson
Professor Paul Gleeson is the Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Melbourne, located at Bio21 Institute. Professor Gleeson’s research interests are in the molecular basis of organ-specific autoimmune diseases, and the molecular mechanisms of intracellular membrane transport. His research dissects complex cell interactions of the immune system and also applies a range of cell biological approaches to discover the molecular machines that regulate transport pathways in a range of different systems, including transformed and primary cells and whole organisms.
He has published over 140 articles in internationally refereed journals and 10 book chapters. He is on the editorial board of international journals as well as a member of the Faculty of 1000. Paul Gleeson obtained his PhD in 1980 from the University of Melbourne and did post-doctoral work in the biosynthesis and function of glycoproteins at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, National Institute for Medical research, Mill Hill London and Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University. From 1986-2001 he rose from Lecturer to Assoc/Professor in the Department of Immunology and Pathology, Monash University where he and his colleagues developed mouse models of autoimmune gastritis. In 2001 he moved to Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne and has been Head of the Department since 2006.
He has a number of international research collaborations and has been a visiting scientist at the EMBL, Heidelberg, and the Institut Curie, Paris.
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The University of New South Wales
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Prof Merlin Crossley
After completing a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne, Merlin was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and carried out his doctorate at Oxford University investigating haemophilia B. He then took up a research position at Harvard Medical School studying the regulation of genes involved in blood formation. In 1995 he returned to Australia and established a laboratory at the University of Sydney, where he served as Acting Dean of Science in 2004 and Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research from 2006 to 2008. At the end of 2009 he moved to take up the position of Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales, where his lab investigates the control of gene expression by zinc finger proteins. |
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Prof Warwick Dawson
Warwick Dawson is the Director, Research Partnerships at the University of New South Wales. He has 20 years experience in strategic leadership roles in both the public and private sectors. In addition to various positions in research intensive universities, he has held legal and commercial roles in the engineering, construction and IT sectors supporting a wide range of clients ranging from multi-nationals to SMEs. Key achievements include building effective partnerships enabling successful execution of high impact projects, and delivery of effective customer focused services. |
The University of Queensland
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Prof Deborah Terry
Professor Terry
received a BA and PhD (1989) from the Australian National University,
and joined the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland
first as postdoctoral research fellow in 1990 and then as a lecturer in
1991. She was Deputy Head of School from 1997 to 1999, and, after
serving as Professor of Social Psychology and Head of School from 2000
to 2005, was appointed Executive Dean, Faculty of Social and Behavioural
Sciences in January 2006. In February 2007, Professor Terry accepted an
appointment to a half-time role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and
Learning), and in January 2008, Professor Terry was appointed as the
inaugural Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning). The position
was retitled Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) from 1 January 2009.
Her primary
research interests are in the areas of attitudes, social influence,
persuasion, group processes, and intergroup relations. She also has
applied research interests in organisational and health psychology. She
has published widely in these areas, and is co-editor of "The theory of
reasoned action: Its application to AIDS-preventive behaviour" (1993),
"Attitudes, behavior, and social context: The role of group norms and
group membership" (1999), and "Social identity processes in
organisational contexts" (2001).
Professor Terry is a Fellow of the Academy of Social
Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society,
previous chair of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts
in the social, behavioural and economic sciences, past President of the
Society for Australasian Social Psychology, and she currently holds
editorial positions with the British Journal of Psychology and the
European Journal of Social Psychology.
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Prof Brandon Wainwright
Professor
Wainwright was appointed Director of the Institute for Molecular
Bioscience in December 2006. Previously, he was Deputy Director
(Research) of the IMB. Professor Wainwright joined UQ in 1990 as a
Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology and the
Department of Biochemistry.
Professor
Wainwright was born in Melbourne and was educated at the University of
Adelaide. Before coming to UQ, he worked at the University of London. He
has won several awards, including the Boehringer Mannheim Medal of the
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1991), the
Gottschalk Medal of the Australian Academy of Science (1998). He serves
on several boards and on the Health and Medical Research Council of
Queensland.
The major focus
of his laboratory is the use of genomic approaches to dissect the basis
of common genetic disease. In particular, his team has focused on two
heritable conditions, cystic fibrosis and basal cell carcinoma of the
skin. Through the mapping and isolation of the genes that are
responsible for these diseases they have continued to follow through on
each in order to understand how the genetic defects lead to the disease.
Ultimately this will provide them with validated targets against which
they can develop potential therapeutics.
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The University of Sydney
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Prof Trevor Hambley
Professor
Hambley received his BSc (Hons) degree from the University of
Western Australia in 1977 and then moved to Adelaide where undertook
his PhD work on molecular modelling of metal complexes with Dr
Michael Snow. Following postdoctoral studies at the
Australian National University in 1982 he moved to CSIRO
Energy Chemistry, Lucas Heights. His move east across
Australia was completed in 1984 when he took up a position at
the University of Sydney where he is currently a Professor
in the School of Chemistry and Director of Research in the Faculties of
Science. His scientific interests are in the area of
medicinal inorganic chemistry with emphases on platinum
anticancer agents, hypoxia selective metal complexes, MMP
binding agents, and metal-based anti-inflammatory drugs. He
has won awards for research and for postgraduate teaching and
has published more than 460 books, reviews and papers.
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Prof Jill Trewhella
Professor Jill
Trewhella received her BSc (Hons 1) in Physics and Applied Mathematics
(1975) and MSc in Physics (1978) from the University of NSW. Her PhD
(1981) is in Chemistry from the University of Sydney. She moved to the
United States in 1980 to complete post doctoral studies at Yale
University in the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, and in 1984
went to Los Alamos National Laboratory to establish a structural
molecular biology program associated with the spallation neutron source
there. Jill held various science leadership and management positions at
Los Alamos before being named Laboratory Fellow (1995) in recognition of
sustained outstanding contributions to science and technology. She has
published ~100 original research papers, book chapters, pedagogical
articles, and reviews on structural biology, with a focus on molecular
signaling in cells and the control of enzyme activity. This work gained
her the recognition of being named a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and a 2004 Australian Federation Fellow.
Jill took up her appointment as Professor of Molecular and Microbial
Biosciences at the University of Sydney in 2005. She also holds
auxiliary appointments in the Department of Chemistry, University of
Utah, and the Bragg Institute at ANSTO. Jill is currently the Deputy
Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Sydney.
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The University of Western Australia
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Prof Peter Leedman
Professor Peter
Leedman completed medicine at the University of Western Australia (UWA),
then trained in endocrinology at Royal Melbourne Hospital in the
mid-1980s. He completed his PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
in Melbourne with Len Harrison on autoimmune thyroid disease from
1987-1991. From 1991-1994 he was a Lucille P Markey Fellow with Bill
Chin, a Howard Hughes Investigator in the Division of Genetics, Brigham
and Women's hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston where he worked
on the molecular mechanisms of thyroid hormone action.
He returned to
Perth in 1994 as a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at UWA and became a
Professor in 2003. His research studies are focussed on the mechanisms
of hormone action, in particular interactions between RNA and protein
that govern expression of key genes involved in the proliferation of
hormone-dependent cancer (breast and prostate). His laboratory is
focused on applying advances in understanding these molecular mechanisms
to the development of novel therapeutics. The team's discovery of
several novel transcriptional nuclear receptor coregulators, including
SLIRP, has generated much interest in the role of RNA-binding
coregulators in hormone action.
Professor Leedman
is Head of the Laboratory for Cancer Medicine and Deputy Director of
WAIMR. He is also an endocrinologist and Director of Research at Royal
Perth Hospital.
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Prof Robyn Owens
Professor Owens is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at The University of Western Australia. She has
responsibility for research policy development and general oversight of
the University's research activities, postgraduate education, industry
liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.
Professor Owens has a BSc (Hons) from UWA and a MSc and a DPhil
from Oxford, all in Mathematics. She worked at l'Université de
Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis before
returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician.
She has lectured in Mathematics and Computer Science at UWA, and
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley, as well as for
shorter periods in Thailand and New Zealand. Her research has focussed
on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape
measurement, image understanding, and representation.
Through her previous role as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research &
Research Training) at UWA, Professor Owens led the development and
research training of over 1900 research students. Prior to taking up
that position, she was Head of the School of Computer Science &
Software Engineering at UWA from 1998 until the end of 2002.
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Flinders University
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Prof David Day
David Day studied at the University of Adelaide, gaining a PhD in plant biochemistry in 1975. After two postdoctoral fellowships in the USA at the University of Illinois and UCLA, in 1978 he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship to work with Hal Hatch (CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra) on C4 photosynthesis. He subsequently became a Research Fellow in the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University, working on photosynthesis and the interaction between mitochondria and chloroplasts. In 1983-84 he continued this work in Europe, first at the Centre D’Etudes Nucléaires at Grenoble, France with Roland Douce and then at the University of Gröningen in The Netherlands with Hans Lambers. In 1985, he returned to Australia and joined the Botany Department at ANU, before moving to the School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, becoming a Professor in 1995. David moved to the University of Western Australia in 1999 to take up the Chair of Biochemistry. In 2005 he was appointed Dean of Science at the University of Sydney and later became Executive Dean, Faculties of Science, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Veterinary Science. At the end of 2009 David took up the post of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Flinders University of South Australia.
In a career spanning approximately 30 years, David has established an international reputation in plant biochemistry and molecular biology, particularly in relation to mitochondrial metabolism and biogenesis, whole plant respiration, ion transport, and symbiotic nitrogen fixation. An important feature of the research has been the integration of physiology with biochemistry and molecular biology.
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Macquarie University
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Prof Simon Foote
Professor Simon Foote obtained his medical degree in 1984 at the University of Melbourne, Australia and in 1989 completed his PhD in Molecular Genetics studying the genetic basis of drug resistance of the malarial parasite.
Professor Foote worked at the Genome Center at the Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he produced the first physical map of a human chromosome and then a map of the entire human genome. Moving back to Australia, he co-headed the Genetics and Bioinformatics Division at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia.
In 1993, he received a Wellcome Senior Australian Fellowship; in 1995, he was awarded the Burnett Prize. He received the Tall Poppy Award in 1999.
Professor Foote was appointed Director of the Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania in 2005 and in February 2012, commenced at Macquarie University as the new Dean of the Australian School of Advanced Medicine.
Simon's research involves the study of genes involved in susceptibility to
disease. He has significant interest in finding the reasons people die
from parasitic disease as well as in mapping genes predisposing people
to multiple sclerosis, cancer and renal disease.
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South Australian Health and Medical
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Prof Steve Wesselingh
On October, 3rd, 2011, Steve took up the position as Executive Director of the new South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).
For the last 4 years he has been Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, one of Australia’s leading health Faculties. Prior to taking up the Deanship, he was Director of the Burnet Institute an independent medical research institute specialises in infectious diseases, immunology and public health.
His undergraduate and doctoral training was at Flinders University/Flinders Medical Centre and his post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins.
Steve is an Infectious Diseases Physician with research interests in Neurovirology, HIV and vaccine development.
Steve has consistently worked towards the integration of high quality medical research with health-care delivery, leading to improved health outcomes for Australia and the poorly resourced countries of the region.
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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Prof Doug Hilton
Professor Hilton began his scientific career in 1984 as a vacation student in Professor Ian Young's laboratory at the John Curtin School of Medical Research and in 1986 as a BSc(Hons) student at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). Professor Hilton spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at The Whitehead Institute, MIT in Cambridge working on the structure/function relationship of the erythropoietin receptor. Since returning to Australia in 1993 he has established an international reputation as a result of his discoveries in the area of cytokine signaling. Over the last three years Professor Hilton, with Professor Warren Alexander and Dr. Benjamin Kile, established a new program using large-scale mouse genetics to dissect the molecular regulation of blood cell formation.
Professor Hilton was appointed to lead a Systems Biology initiative at WEHI at the beginning of 2006 and became Head of the Division of Molecular Medicine. In July 2009 Professor Hilton was appointed Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Head of the Department of Medical Biology of the University of Melbourne.
Professor Hilton is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and in 2007 was awarded an inaugural NHMRC Australia Fellowship.
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