Dr Kieran Harvey
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Kieran and his team investigate the mechanism by which the organ size is controlled during development. Key roles in characterising a key determinant of organ size the Salvador-Warts-Hippo (SWH) pathways. The SWH pathways restrict organ size by stimulating apoptosis, and by restricting cells from growing and dividing excessively. He has rapidly…
Read More »Dr Kylie Mason
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Kylie is one of those rare individuals who combine an outstanding commitment to clinical medicine and direct one on one patient care, with a longer term vision for improving general patient outcomes through research. Kylie has worked on a project that examines the molecular regulations of platelet…
Read More »Dr Natalie Borg
Monash University Natalie studies the three dimensional shape of proteins and is interested in how two immune systems’ proteins interact with one another to generate an immune response. One of the proteins, surveys our cells for foreign lipid fragments, captures them and takes them to the cells surface. Natural killer T cells scan the lipid…
Read More »Dr Sandra McLaren
University of Melbourne Sandra is motivated by the importance of the Earth Sciences in resource sustainability and in understanding the long term evolution of the Australian continent. She has worked on a wide range of problems in earth science and her research interests are constantly evolving. Her most notable contributions have been on studying the extraordinary…
Read More »Professor Kylie Bal
Deakin University Kylie researches Obesity and its implications for society. Obesity is recognised as a major threat to health. While we know that obesity is caused by consuming more food than we are burning through physical activity, we don’t yet have a good understanding of the underlying drivers of the obesity epidemic. Her research aims…
Read More »Associate Professor Josephine Forbes
Baker ID Heart & Diabetes Institute Josephine researches diabetes and its complications, which are set to become the major health epidemic of this century. More than 1.5 million Australians are affected and approximately half of these will develop complications including blindness, kidney disease and heart attacks. Her research focuses on a sticky caramelisation process which…
Read More »Associate Professor Paul Gorry
Burnet Institute Paul whose principle area of research is in understanding HIV causes, AIDS and AIDS related complications. HIV invades the brain and is a common cause of dementia in people living with HIV. His studies aim to prevent HIV from penetrating the brain, thereby reducing the chance of patients with HIV developing dementia. HIV…
Read More »Dr Brendan Jenkins
Monash University Brendan’s research involves stomach (gastric) cancers which is the second most common cause of cancer related deaths worldwide, and represents a growing number of cancers, including liver, prostate & colon, associated with chronic inflammation. The mechanisms by which inflammation can lead to cancer are poorly understood. Brendan’s research has discovered that blocking the…
Read More »Dr Brian Krongold
University of Melbourne Brian has mainly focussed his research in wireless, wire line (DSL for example), and optical communication systems. By theorizing and designing new approaches and practical algorithms, the goal is to further advance communications systems by reducing equipment cost, better utilising bandwidth in the airwaves, increasing the data rate (speed), and reducing power…
Read More »Dr Ian Wanless
Monash University Ian works in combinatorics, and areas of mathematics currently receiving much attention both nationally and internationally. Ian’s primary research is in the area of Latin Squares, the building blocks of combinatorial design. These are ubiquitous in pure and applied mathematics and statistics. Though Ian studies them from a theoretical viewpoint, Latin Square has…
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