Award ceremony at ANU

Awards & prizes

Discover excellence and celebrate achievements

We honour those who have made remarkable contributions to medical research. These prestigious internal and external awards and prizes recognise exceptional performance, academic brilliance, and devoted service, and inspire a culture of innovation and collaboration in pursuit of excellence in research and education.


Recent awards

Abhimanu Pandey

Dr Abhimanu Pandey was awarded the Dewar-Milne Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of Immunology in 2022.

Professor Mark Polizzotto is the 2022 recipient of the Tony Ayers Award for Excellence in Research in Translational Medicine.

Dr Olga Zaytseva

Dr Anne Steins and Dr Olga Zaytseva received the JCSMR Gender Equity Fund in 2022.

All awards

Dr Adrian Cioanca was awarded the Frank Fenner Medal for the outstanding PhD thesis in 2022.

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Dr Anne Steins and Dr Olga Zaytseva received the JCSMR Gender Equity Fund in 2022.

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Professor Mark Polizzotto is the 2022 recipient of the Tony Ayers Award for Excellence in Research in Translational Medicine.

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Dr Abhimanu Pandey was awarded the Dewar-Milne Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of Immunology in 2022.

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Dr Amandeep Kaur and Dr Yvette Wooff received The JCSMR Gender Equity Fund.

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Professor Philip Batterham is the 2021 Winner of the Tony Ayers Award for Excellence in Research and Translational Medicine.

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Dr Henry Sutton was awarded the Dewar-Milne Prize in Immunology for his research on Single cell analysis of B cell responses to Malaria.

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Dr Anukriti Mathur was awarded The Frank Fenner Medal for the research on microbial activators of the inflammasome.

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Dr Hayley McNamara was awarded The Frank Fenner Medal. 

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Dr Jonathan Roco was awarded The Frank Fenner Medal.

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The Dewar-Milne Prize in Immunology was awarded to Dr Pablo Fernandez De Canete Nieto.

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Associate Professor Michelle Banfield has been awarded the 2019 John James Foundation Tony Ayers Award for Excellence in Research in Translational Medicine.

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