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

Elizabeth Webb
CHARM Rising Star Awards (2025)


Dr Elizabeth Webb and Dr Tom Lea-Henry from the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) have been honoured with the inaugural CHARM Rising Star - Outstanding New Researcher Awards.

Tom Lea-Henry
CHARM Rising Star Awards (2025)


Dr Elizabeth Webb and Dr Tom Lea-Henry from the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) have been honoured with the inaugural CHARM Rising Star - Outstanding New Researcher Awards.

Dr Tienan Xu

The thesis achieves a transformative synergy between optical imaging and bio-fabrication to pioneer high-speed volumetric screening/printing for 3D tissue models. The thesis addresses critical bottlenecks in pharmaceutical testing, establishing a new standard for the next generation of drug discovery platforms.

All awards

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 Hayley McNamara 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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