Dr Maria Kavallaris
Children’s Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research University of New South Wales Maria is a cancer researcher with a national and international reputation in the field of drug resistance in cancer. Maria has established a highly successful research team focused on identifying the mechanisms of action and resistance to anticancer drugs. Her extensive research contributions…
Read More »Dr Merridee Wouters
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute / University of New South Wales Computers are becoming increasingly important in medical research. Data gained from patients and laboratories around the world, which are traditionally shared through scientific literature, are now additionally pooled into huge databases such as the Human Genome Database. The new field of bioinformatics involves interrogation…
Read More »Dr Suresh Mahalingam
University of Wollongong Suresh is an academic viral immunologist with research interests directed towards the virus-host relationship and the factors which influence the outcome of a viral infection. Suresh has made several seminal contributions to the understanding of how viruses interact with the infected host to promote disease. He has helped solve the mystery of…
Read More »Dr Tracy Bryan
Children’s Medical Research Institute Tracy is a molecular and cellular biologist whose research focuses on the role of the ends of chromosomes, or telomeres, in the growth of cancer cells. During her PhD studies at the Children’s Medical Research Institute she discovered a new mechanism for maintenance of telomeres in human tumours, a discovery which…
Read More »Professor Claude Roux
University of Technology Claude is the founding Director of the UTS Centre for Forensic Science. His research activities cover a broad spectrum of disciplines which are aimed at understanding and solving analytical and interpretative problems encountered in forensic science. These include trace evidence (fibres, paint, glass etc), document examination (inks, toners), fingerprints and other forms…
Read More »Professor Thomas Maschmeyer
University of Sydney Thomas is a scientist whose mission it is to tackle some of the major global technological problems such as waste generation/pollution, the green-house effect and depletion of fossil-based energy sources by generating and using new fundamental insights at the molecular level. Thomas’ principal achievements to date lie in advancing and integrating the…
Read More »Associate Professor Brett A Neilan
University of New South Wales Brett established his research group at the University of New South Wales in 1997 after postdoctoral studies at Stanford and Humboldt (Berlin) Universities. The main topic of their work is the genetics of toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and their research has led to the discovery of three of the four…
Read More »Associate Professor Christopher Semsarian
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Christopher is a molecular cardiologist with a strong research interest in genetic heart disorders, with a particular focus on sudden cardiac death in the young. After completing his medical and cardiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, he undertook a highly successful PhD at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research…
Read More »Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis
Garvan Institute of Medical Research / University of New South Wales Amanda undertook PhD studies at the University of Geneva, with funding from the prestigious Swiss Government Scholarship. Amanda’s PhD was instrumental in elucidating the physiological reasons for the “dieter’s plateau”: the phenomenon of a slowing or cessation of weight loss during a slimming regime,…
Read More »Dr David J. Adams
University of Sydney David is a geneticist whose mission is to develop and study animal models of human disease. During his PhD research David realised the limitations of studies performed on human subjects and decided to commence post-doctoral studies at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, where he employed embryonic stem cell technology to modify…
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