The Adelaide Investigator Academy
The NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme recognises Australia’s 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 University of Adelaide researchers who have made world-class impact over the course of their careers, and emerging leaders who are recognised among Australia’s brightest early and mid-career research talents.
Professor 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 Australia post COVID-19.
Professor Timothy Hughes
Leadership 3, 2022-2026
A curative approach for chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Professor 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.
Professor Lisa Jamieson
Leadership 2, 2022-2026
Advancing Indigenous Australian Oral health through clinical trials, cohort studies and surveillance.
Professor Jodie Dodd
Leadership 2, 2021-2025
Healthy diet and weight management in pregnancy: evidence to ease a hefty clinical burden.
Professor Sarah Robertson
Leadership 2, 2021-2025, NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award
Peri-conception determinants of reproductive and pregnancy health.
Professor 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.
Associate Professor Jacqueline Gould
Leadership 1, 2025-2029
Supporting Neurodevelopment through Targeted Nutrition.
Professor 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.
Doctor Zohra Lassi
Emerging Leadership 2, 2022-2026
Addressing evidence gaps to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
Professor 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
Emerging Leadership 2, 2020-2024
Implementing nutrition and lifestyle interventions for women, young children and families.
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.
Associate Professor Mark Plummer
Emerging Leadership 1, 2023-2027
Sickly sweet: managing high blood glucose during and post critical illness.
Doctor Azmeraw Amare
Emerging Leadership 1, 2022-2026
Developing Genetic Testing Tools for Optimising Pharmacotherapy and Enabling a Precision Mental Health Care.
Doctor Jiawen Li
Emerging Leadership 1, 2022-2026
Developing more accurate cardiovascular disease detection with a cellular-resolution imaging catheter.
Doctor Emily Shepherd
Emerging Leadership 1, 2022-2026
Preterm birth and neurodevelopment: improving long-term outcomes.
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.
Doctor Yvonne Clark
Emerging Leadership 1, 2020-2024
Improving wellbeing and preventing lateral violence in the Aboriginal community in SA: Investing in our young.
Doctor Thomas Sullivan
Emerging Leadership 1, 2020-2024
Increasing the value of randomised trials: a combined program of methodological and applied health research.