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2007 Ramaciotti Award winners announced
The 2007 Ramaciotti Awards were announced 1 November at a black tie event hosted by Perpetual in Melbourne. Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, 1996 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology and 1997 Australian of the Year, addressed the audience of past Ramaciotti Award winners, the bio-medical research community, philanthropists and clients of Perpetual. View the media release.
Perpetual would like to thank the Scientific Advisory Committee who helped the Ramaciotti Foundations in distributing more than $2.3 million in 2007 to individuals and organisations working towards improving the lives of Australians through biomedical research.
The Ramaciotti Foundations are collectively one of the largest contributors to biomedical research in Australia, having granted more than $45 million to research projects since 1970.
Find out more about the Ramaciotti Awards.
Ramaciotti Medal
Dr. Roger Reddel from the Children's Medical Research Institute has been awarded the Ramaciotti Medal for discoveries that explain how cancers are able to continue their relentless growth.
His research on the distinguishing characteristics of cancer cells and the discovery of an enzyme earlier this year have opened up the way for the development of drugs that could be an effective treatment for cancers.
Watch the video about Dr Reddel and the Childrens Medical Research Institute
Ramaciotti Research Award
Chief Investigators Prof Chris Goodnow and Dr Anselm Enders from The John Curtin School of Medical Research, at the Australian National University, are the recipients of the 2007 Ramaciotti Research Award of $1 million.
Their team’s work has focused on cellular immortalisation and pioneered successful genomic technology to reveal genes, cells and biological mechanisms governing immunisation responses. The award will help fund a new laboratory at the Immunology and Genetics Division in the school.
Watch the video about Professor Goodnow & Dr Enders from the John Curtin School of Medical Research
Ramaciotti Grants
ACT
- Dr Nicole Verrills, University of Newcastle
- Professor Derek Hart, Mater Medical Research Institute
NSW
- Dr Jeff Holst, Centenary Institute
- Professor Mathew Vadas, Centenary Institute
- Dr Gregory Pelka, Children’s Medical Research Institute
- Dr Tim Karl, Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia
- Dr Cynthia Weickert, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
- Associate Professor Chris Cowell, The Children's Hospital at Westmead
- Dr Miguel Angel Iglesias, University of New South Wales
- Dr Rebecca Haddock, University of New South Wales
- Dr Jane Hanrahan, University of Sydney
- Dr Leanne Stokes, University of Sydney
- Dr Daniela Traini, University of Sydney
- Professor Richard Banati, University of Sydney
- Professor Nicholas King, University of Sydney
- Dr Brian Oliver, University of Sydney
- Professor Robert Baxter, University of Sydney
- Dr John Parratt, University of Sydney
- Dr Adam Hill, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
- Professor Robert Graham, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
- Dr Catherine Clarke, University of Sydney
NT
- Dr Rebecca Towers, Menzies School of Health Research
QLD
- Dr Sonya Marshall Bond University
- Dr Penelope Jeffery, Mater Medical Research Institute
- Dr Paula Marlton, Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Professor David Adams, University of Queensland
- Professor George E O Muscat, University of Queensland
- Dr Benjamin Ross, University of Queensland
SA
- Dr Kathryn Burdon Flinders University of South Australia
- Professor Greg Barritt, Flinders University of South Australia
- Professor Wayne Tilley, University of Adelaide
- Dr Carol Jane Lang, University of Adelaide
- Professor Guy Maddern, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
VIC
- Dr Clinton Bruce Baker, Medical Research Institute
- Dr Rachael Richardson, Bionic Ear Institute
- Professor Tien Y. Wong, Centre for Eye Research Australia
- Associate Professor Rosemary French, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
- Dr Gerard Devitt, Monash University
- Dr Natalie Borg, Monash University
- Associate Professor David Robertson, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research
- Dr Joanne Louise Favaloro, RMIT University
- Dr Carl Walkley, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
- Professor Michael Parker, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
- Dr Benjamin James Harrison, University of Melbourne
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