Dr David Whiteman
Queensland Institute of Medical Research David is a medical epidemiologist whose work has focussed on the causes and control of common cancers, principally melanoma and ovarian cancer. In addition to numerous grants, fellowships and prizes to fund his work, Dr Whiteman has also negotiated industry collaboration to undertake clinical trials of novel anti-cancer agents. Medical Epidemiology…
Read More »Associate Professor Matt Trau
University of Queensland Matt researches the areas of biomaterials and Bio-medical devices which will ultimately imrpove human health. Major research programs include “Artificial Human Tissue Engineering” for bone, liver and pancreas tissue, and the development of novel devices for “Rapid DNA Sequencing, Genetic Screening and Drug Discovery”. In 2008, Matt was Professor of Chemistry at…
Read More »Associate Professor Ranjeny Thomas
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane Ranjeny investigates the role of dendritic cells in the autoimmune arthiritic condition, rheumatoid arthritis. Ranjeny’s studies have shown the potential of dendritic cells when mixed with tumour antigens, to induce a regression of a variety of cancers. She was promoted to Professor at the University of Queensland in 2004. Immunology Rheumatology…
Read More »Dr Jan Nicholson
Queensland University of Technology Jan is a psychologist with research experience in child development, psychology and public health, including the coordination of longitudinal studies and randomised, controlled trials. Jan became an Associate Professor at Griffith University in 2006, and in 2008 became Honorary Principal Research Fellow, School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne….
Read More »Dr Alfio Parisi
University of Southern Queensland Alfio is a physicist with a national and international profile in research on solar ultrviolet radiation measurments, particularly focussed on improved characterisation of the solar UV environment on the surface of the earth. His research projects have developed techniques to quantify the ultraviolet radiation exposure to humans in different environments during…
Read More »Dr Lars Keld Nielsen
The University of Queensland Lars has research programs including the development of better processes for gene and cell therapies, production of polymers in bacteria and sugar cane, and production of insect viruses for use as biopesticides. In 2008 Lars was an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Systems Biology Synthetic Biology Biology
Read More »Dr Peter Junk
James Cook University Peter researches the organometallic chemistry of main group and lanthanoid elements, compounds which have significant applications in catalysis, luminescence and materials science. Peter completed his PhD at UWA in 1989 and subseuqently worked at AMPOL before returning to an academic career. This included appointments in the US and France before returning to…
Read More »Dr Sally-Ann Poulson
Griffith University Sally-Ann is a medicinal chemist researching new approaches to therapeutic drug discovery. The objective of her research is to develop dynamic combinatorial chemistry as a conceptually different but superior strategyto therapeutic drug discovery over conventional chemical methodologies. Since 2001 Sally-Ann is an ARC QEII Fellow which has helped further her research in the…
Read More »Professor Mary O’Kane
Vice-Chancellor of Adelaide University since 1996 Mary is a leading Australian specialist in her primary research field of spoken language understanding/automatic speech recognition. She was awarded the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Medal in 1990 for her research in this field. In 2008, Professor O’Kane became NSW’s first Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer. Speech Recognition Engineering
Read More »