The Adelaide Investigator Academy

The NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme recognises 最新糖心Vlog鈥檚 most outstanding medical research leaders and emerging leaders. Recipients are supported by the Commonwealth government to undertake ambitious research programs for 5 years.

The Adelaide Investigator Academy hosts these distinguished 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide researchers who have made world-class impact over the course of their careers, and emerging leaders who are recognised among 最新糖心Vlog鈥檚 brightest early and mid-career research talents.


Maria-Makrides


Leadership 3, 2023-2027
N-3 (Omega-3) Precision Nutrition: Preventing prematurity and enhancing cognitive development of very preterm children.


Professor Fran Baum


Leadership 3, 2022-2026
Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities in 最新糖心Vlog post COVID-19.


Prof Tim Hughes


Leadership 3, 2022-2026
A curative approach for chronic myeloid leukaemia.


Prof Michael Horowitz


Leadership 3, 2020-2024
Gastric emptying, glucagon-like peptide-1 and glycaemic control in diabetes and critical illness.


Professor James Paton


Leadership 3, 2020-2024
Understanding and preventing pneumococcal disease.


Professor Helen Marshall


Leadership 2, 2025-2029
Novel Strategies for Global Control of Meningococcal Disease and Gonorrhoea.


Professor Jose Polo


Leadership 2, 2025-2029
Exploring the Boundaries of Nuclear Reprogramming.


Professor Prashanthan Sanders


Leadership 2, 2023-2027
Managing the First Pillar for Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke.


Prof Lisa Jamieson


Leadership 2, 2022-2026
Advancing Indigenous 最新糖心Vlogn Oral health through clinical trials, cohort studies and surveillance.


Prof Jodie Dodd


Leadership 2, 2021-2025
Healthy diet and weight management in pregnancy: evidence to ease a hefty clinical burden.


Prof Sarah Robertson


Leadership 2, 2021-2025, NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award
Peri-conception determinants of reproductive and pregnancy health.


Prof Peter-John Wormald


Leadership 2, 2021-2025
From bench to bedside: A new treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis.


Professor Zachary Munn


Leadership 1, 2026-2030
Advancing the Science of Evidence Synthesis: Developing Standards, Guidance and Resources for Better Evidence for Better Health Decisions.聽


Associate Professor Jacqueline Gould


Leadership 1, 2025-2029
Supporting Neurodevelopment through Targeted Nutrition.


Prof Chunxia Zhao


Leadership 1, 2022-2026
Novel nanotechnology strategies towards a new paradigm of precision nanomedicine.


Doctor Hannah Wardill


Emerging Leadership 2, 2025-2029
Harnessing the Gut Microbiota to Predict and Prevent Life-Threatening Complications of Blood Cancer Treatment.


Professor Christopher Wong


Emerging Leadership 2, 2024-2028
New approaches to the prevention and management of heart rhythm disorders.


Dr Zohra Lassi


Emerging Leadership 2, 2022-2026
Addressing evidence gaps to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health.


Prof Caroline Miller


Emerging Leadership 2, 2021-2025
Driving advances in sugar-sweetened beverage policy and resolving the unknown substitution effects into artificially sweetened beverage, fruit juice and water consumption.


Professor Philippa Middleton

Professor Philippa Middleton
Emerging Leadership 2, 2020-2024
Implementing nutrition and lifestyle interventions for women, young children and families.


Doctor Dharmesh Bhuva


Emerging Leadership 1, 2025-2029
Studying the Topology of Cancer Tissue and its Microenvironment to Identify Topological Biomarkers.


Doctor Guangze Yang


Emerging Leadership 1, 2025-2029
Innovative Chemoimmunotherapy for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.


Doctor Jennifer Stone


Emerging Leadership 1, 2025-2029
Systematic Reviews of Aetiology and Risk Factors of Disease: A Program of Methodological Research.


Doctor Yue Hui


Emerging Leadership 1, 2024-2028
A conductive hydrogel-based cardiac patch integrated with bioelectronics for repairing infarcted myocardium.


A/ Prof Mark Plummer


Emerging Leadership 1, 2023-2027
Sickly sweet: managing high blood glucose during and post critical illness.


Dr Azmeraw Amare


Emerging Leadership 1, 2022-2026
Developing Genetic Testing Tools for Optimising Pharmacotherapy and Enabling a Precision Mental Health Care.


Dr Jiawen Li


Emerging Leadership 1, 2022-2026
Developing more accurate cardiovascular disease detection with a cellular-resolution imaging catheter.


Dr Emily Shepherd


Emerging Leadership 1, 2022-2026
Preterm birth and neurodevelopment: improving long-term outcomes.


Dr Roula Ghaoui

Doctor Roula Ghaoui
Emerging Leadership 1, 2021-2025
Diagnosing hereditary myopathies and dystrophies with RNA sequencing: translating research innovations into diagnostic practice.


Professor Zachary Munn


Emerging Leadership 1, 2021-2025
Improving the Synthesis of Medical Research: The Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative.


Dr Yvonne Clark


Emerging Leadership 1, 2020-2024
Improving wellbeing and preventing lateral violence in the Aboriginal community in SA: Investing in our young.


Dr Thomas Sullivan


Emerging Leadership 1, 2020-2024
Increasing the value of randomised trials: a combined program of methodological and applied health research.