The Frank Fenner Medal

The Frank Fenner Medal is awarded annually for the most outstanding PhD thesis submitted in the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.

The award, consists of a medal and a monetary prize. The purpose of the Frank Fenner medal is to encourage PhD students in the School to strive for excellence. The Medal is one of the few prizes to reward outstanding achievement at such an early career stage.

Previous recipients of the Frank Fenner medal

• 2007 Dr Di Yu
  Biomarkers of T Cell Help to Germinal Centre B Cells
• 2006 Dr Amanda de Mestre
  Regulation of Heparanase Expression in T Lymphocytes and Tumour Cells
• 2005 Dr Adrian Liston
  Genetic Lesions in Thymus-acquired Self Tolerance
• 2004 Dr Allison Jones
  Characterisation and Functional Analysis of Histidine-Rich Glycoprotein
• 2003 Dr Ming Yang
  Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Eosinophil Migration and Airways Hyperreactivity.
• 2002 Dr Francis Willard
  Functional roles of growth factor receptor signal transduction pathways
• 2001 Dr Jade Forwood
  Importin b-mediated nuclear import pathways for DNS-binding proteins
• 2000 Dr Anna Reynolds
  Molecular mechanisms regulating the retrograde axonal transport of neurotrophic factors
• 1999 Dr Sabine Piller
  Structure function studies of virus protein R from human immunodeficiency virus-1
• 1998 Dr Cheryl Wise
  Comparative molecular genetics of humans and chimpanzees
• 1997 Dr Simon Hogan
  Role of cytokines in the regulation of allergic airways inflammation
• 1996 Dr Michael Grimm
  Recruitment of leukocytes to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) - affected mucosa
• 1995 Dr Tracy Hale
  Regulation of the mouse p53 promoter