Recent awards
Many of our researchers are recognised nationally and internationally for their research activities.
Ian Hickie, executive director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, was named as one of the ten most influential Australians by the Australian Financial Review.
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Doctoral candidate Mark Elkins has been presented with the inaugural Sir Zelman Cowan Prize for a medical study confirming the value of a saline solution treatment for cystic fibrosis patients. Full Story
Professor Ian Fraser from the University's Queen Elizabeth II Research Institute for Mothers and Infants, was awarded Innovator of the Year at the 2006 Human Capital Leadership Awards.
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An effective low-cost treatment for Cystic Fibrosis sufferers has won the young University of Sydney scientist who established the treatment the inaugural Sir Zelman Cowen University Fund Prize for Discovery in Medical Research. Mark Elkins, a PhD student in the Faculty of Medicine, won the $5,000 prize for a long-term trial establishing the novel therapy which uses hypertonic saline solution (a sterile solution of ordinary salt, but at a higher concentration than found in body cells), inhaled through a nebuliser.
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Associate Professor Lea Williams (Director of Sydney University's Brain Dynamics Centre) has been awarded a prestigious Pfizer Australian Research Fellowship of $1 million over five years to further her internationally recognised research into the causes and treatment of disorders including schizophrenia, post traumatic stress and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Full story
Robert Menzies (PhD student, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS)), won the $3,500 inaugural Cross-cultural Public Health Award presented by the Faculty of Medicine for his study, Report card on vaccination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - Could do better! Full story
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Imre Hunyor (student, Sydney's Graduate Medical Program) has been awarded the 2005 NSW Rhodes Scholarship. He will go to Oxford University to develop his skills as a clinical scientist in cardiovascular medicine. Full story |
Dr Shaun Hearn (Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health) received an Aboriginal Health Research Career Development Fellowship from the newly-formed Coalition for Research to Improve Aboriginal Health (CRIAH). The award is a two-year $60,000 research fellowship to continue his work into ways of improving the wellbeing of Aboriginal communities. Full story
Professor Paul Mitchell (Opthalmology) has received the 2004 Global Glaucoma Award for his work on the Blue Mountains Eye Study, a 12-year project researching visual impairment in more than 3,500 eldery people.
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Professor Frank Billson (Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health), a pioneer in preserving the eyesight of premature babies, has been awarded a Claude Worth Lifetime Distinction Medal for his contributions to paediatric ophthalmology.
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Dr David Adams (Biological and Biomedical Sciences), NHMRC CJ Martin Fellow from the School of , has been honoured at the 2004 NSW Young Tall Poppies Awards. Dr Adams is currently working at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, where he has employed embryonic stem cell research to created 'knockout mice' - mice which are engineered to develop diseases such as cancer and heart disease, much like mini humans.
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Dr Tracy Bryan (Head of the Cell Biology Unit at the Children's Medical Research Institute) has been honoured at the 2004 NSW Young Tall Poppies Awards. Her work focuses on the role of the ends of chromosomes, or telomeres, in the growth of cancer cells.
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Associate Professor Christopher Semsarian (Head of Molecular Cardiology at the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology) has been honoured at the 2004 NSW Young Tall Poppies Awards. Professor Semsarian's research focuses on genetic heart disorders, with a particular focus on sudden cardiac death in the young.
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Janet Deane (PhD student, Molecular and Microbial Biosciences) has won Cure Cancer Australia's 2004 Young Brilliance Award for her research into the development of breast cancer.
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Natalie Rainger (medical student) has been chosen as one of the inaugural winners of an Order of Australia Association Foundation bursary. She has a background in speech pathology and is currently working as a research assistant at the National Voice Centre.
Dr Elizabeth Ellis (Physiotherapy) was awarded the Anthonie Johannes Zietse Research Award by the National Heart Foundation in 2004 for her project Effects of patient-centered modular secondary prevention in people with acute coronary syndrome.
Emeritus Professor Charles Kerr (Public Health), appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in honour of his service to medicine in the fields of public health and human genetics, and to education (Jan 04).
