2025 Dame Kate Campbell Fellowships announced
Six high-performing researchers in the School of Biomedical Sciences have been recognised as Fellows.
The Dame Kate Campbell Fellowships are designed to nurture and reward high performing researchers. Discipline-relevant academic output, research impact, national and international research standing, leadership, engagement and demonstration of faculty values are considered in the selection process.
We are delighted to announce that this year, six researchers from across the School have been awarded a fellowship.
Please join us in congratulating our newly appointed Fellows on this recognition and the incredible contributions they have made to our School and beyond.
Level C
Dr Robyn Brown
Robyn Brown is a DECRA Fellow and laboratory head in the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology. Her laboratory studies the neural mechanisms underlying pathological forms of motivated behaviour such as loss-of-control eating and drug addiction, as well as the impact of high-fat high-sugar food on the brain and behaviour. Read more about Robyn’s latest research in Pursuit.
Dr Andrew Cox
Andrew Cox is Head of the Cox Laboratory in the Dept of Biochemistry and Pharmacology. His research group uses zebrafish as a model system to explain pathways involved in liver regeneration and cancer.
Dr Oanh Nguyen
Oanh Nguyen is a Senior Research Fellow in the Kedzierska Group in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the Doherty Institute. This year Oanh and colleague Dr Louise Rowntree were recognised with a prestigious Woodward Medal award for their world-leading work on human T cell responses to respiratory viral pathogens. Read more
Dr Daniel Utzschneider
Daniel Utzschneider is an NHMRC Investigator Fellow and Laboratory Head in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Doherty Institute. His research focuses on CD8+ T cell differentiation in chronic infection and cancer - a phenomenon most widely known as T cell exhaustion.
Level D
Associate Professor Sophie Doak (Valkenburg)
Sophie Valkenburg is a Laboratory Head of Viral Immunology in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the Doherty Institute, investigating T and B cell responses, antibody quality and function for influenza viruses and SARS-CoV-2 from patients.
Level E
Professor Alice Pébay AM
Alice Pébay is Co-Head of the Stem Cell Disease Modelling Laboratory in the Department of Anatomy & Physiology. Alice’s team use patient specific pluripotent stem cells to model neurodegenerative diseases of the eye and brain.
About the Dame Kate Campbell Fellowships Program
Since the commencement of the scheme in 2020, over 100 Fellows have been appointed, recognising their incredible contributions to our faculty and beyond through outstanding research and engagement with the wider community.