The Australian Academy of Science today announced two new national awards named after pre-eminent Australian Scientists, Professor Gus Nossal and Jacques Miller.
The Gustav Nossal Medal for Global Health and Jacques Miller Medal for Experimental Biomedicine will be awarded to Australian early- and mid-career researchers.
Sir Gus Nossal is a former Academy president who has made outstanding contributions to vaccine research and public health, particularly in the developing world. Jacques Miller, a Fellow of the Academy and currently a professor at the Walter and Eliza Hall institute, has made significant contributions to medicine. Most famously, he discovered the function of the thymus, an organ we now know is a fundamental part of the immune system.
Both honorific awards were made possible by the generous donation of Sir Marc Feldmann, a Corresponding Member (international Fellow) of the Academy and a prominent Australian immunologist based at the University of Oxford.
Nominations for both awards close 24 September 2014. For more information on both awards and how to nominate a researcher visit our website.
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