A year of achievement for Dept Microbiology and Immunology

2019 has been a highly successful year for the Department, with researchers achieving significant grants, awards and research performance.

Congratulations to the following researchers for their remarkable accomplishments, as announced by Professor Andrew Brooks, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, at the Department's 2019 End-of-year address.

Grants

NHMRC Investigator Grants	NHMRC Ideas Grants
Professor Katherine Kedzierska Professor Laura Mackay Dr Simone Park Professor Kanta Subbarao Dr Adam Wheatley Professor Deborah Williamson	Dr Glen Carter Professor Thomas Gebhardt Dr Brad Gilbertson Professor Axel Kallies Dr Sarah Londrigan Associate Professor Christopher McDevitt Dr Adam Uldrich
NHMRC Development Grant	ARC Discovery Grants
Professor Fabienne Mackay	Professor David Jackson Professor Laura Mackay Dr Nancy Wang
NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship
Dr Stephen Muhi Dr Katherine Bond
Other grants
Dr Alexander Barrow – MRRF Dr Lynette Beattie – MJ Gething Gender Equity Award Dr Glen Carter – Dean's Innovation Grant (second prize); Mid Career Seeding Ideas Grant Professor Karen Day – NIH-University of Chicago Dr Raissa Fonseca – ECR Award Professor Dale Godfrey – NIH-University of Pittsburgh Dr Claire Gordon – Doherty Collaborative Grant; ECR Award Professor Ben Howden – Fleming Fund Fellowship Program Professor Katherine Kedzierska – NIH-CIVIC; NIH-DIVINCE; Hong Kong Theme Based Research Grant	Professor Stephen Kent – NIH-University of Pittsburgh Dr Marios Koutsakos – ECR Award Professor Fabienne Mackay – Lupus Research Alliance Innovator Grant Dr Julie McAuley – Dunlop Medical Research Foundation Dr Hayley Newton – Mid Career Seeding Ideas Grant Dr Simone Park – Centenary Institute Medical Innovation Award; VCCC Picchi Awards Dr Lucy Sullivan – Doherty Collaborative Grant; SBS Translation Research Award Dr Linda Wakim – Dean's Innovation Grant

Contracts & translational funding

Professor Sammy Bedoui – Merck
Professor Thomas Gebhardt – Merck
Professor Laura Mackay – Pfizer
Patrick Reading – Roche
Dr Glen Carter – Biocurate/Merck Sharp & Dohme

Awards & other achievements

Professor Sammy Bedoui	Professor Laura Mackay
University of Bonn Ambassador	Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship for Research Excellence Woodward Medal in Science and Technology – University of Melbourne Gottschalk Medal – Australian Academy of Science Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher – Macquarie University Prime Minister’s Prize for Frank Fenner Life Scientist of the Year
Dr Amy Chung
Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship for Research Excellence
Dr Maximilien Evrard
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship ARC Discovery Project 2020-2022 CIB
Dr William Figgett	Professor Scott Mueller
2019 SPARK – Accelerating Australia 2018 SBS Translational Research Award 2019 CSIRO On-Prime	Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship for Research Excellence
	Professor Thomas Gebhardt
	Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship for Research Excellence
Professor Katherine Kedzierska	Dr Simone Park
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship for Research Excellence	2019 Centenary Institute Medical Innovation Award
	Dr Nichollas Scott
	2019 Young Glycoscientist Award – International Glycoconjugate Organization

Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researchers

Professor Francis Carbone
Professor Thomas Gebhardt
Professor Dale Godfrey
Professor William Heath
Professor Laura Mackay
Professor James McCluskey

18 Dec 2019