2025

    • Prof Evdokia Dimitriadis, Dr Jacqueline Donoghue and Head of Department Prof Sue Walker, all awarded NHMRC 2025 Ideas Grants.

    • Laura Harbinson awarded Associate Fellowship with the Australasian Sonographers Association
    • Dr Natasha de Alwis awarded a 2024 Heart Foundation Grant
    • Publication Highlights

    • Prof Clare Scott is one of eight Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Fellows to be recognised for their outstanding contributions to health and medical research with election to the Australian Academy of Science.
    • Professor Brett Manley and his team have been awarded the prestigious Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) Trial of the Year for their PLUSS trial.

    • Professor Brett Manley awarded a $3 million grant through the NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies (CTCS) scheme to lead the BabyCCINO trial, an adaptive trial of caffeine dosing to improve outcomes for very preterm infants.

    • Prof Natalie Hannan, Associate Dean Diversity and Inclusion featured in the Dean’s Update video
    • Prof Helena Frawley (Dept OGN honorary) and Dr Karin Jones awarded a Women’s Health Research Catalyst Grant.
    • Prof Hickey interviewed in Fairfax publication WA Today

    • PhD student Maya Robertson won 'Best Poster Presentation' in the 3MT competition at the International NanoMedicine Conference in Sydney (June) and a 'Communication Excellence Award' at the 16th Annual Victorian Scientific Meeting for the Australian Society for Medical Research (July). Maya has also receive the Henry and Rachael Ackman travelling scholarship.
    • PhD student Stefan Botha awarded a - Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) PhD Top-up scholarship awards for 2025.
    • PhD student Dr Madhura Jayasingam received the Richard Lovell Travel Scholarship to attend ASFP 2025 and was awarded 1st Runner-up for poster presentation for their poster ‘Development of a human non-growing follicle density percentile chart’.
    • Dept OGN unveil their new Honorary Welcome Video
    • MD student Shanee Katz (supervisor Dr Naomi Holbeach) won 3rd place at the MDSC (MD Student Conference) Oral Presentations. The title of their project is: "Do Obstetricians have a legal obligation to make reasonable enquiries about what is significant to patients as part of the duty to inform?"
    • Dr Sarah Lensen’s research in the media in The Age and ABC Radio Melbourne Conversation Hour.
    • Publication highlights

    • Dr Melvin Marzan's research covered in the media in The Age and ABC
    • Dr. Zobaida Edib is a Recipient of a 2025 Reproductive Justice HRI Seed Grant for the project Inclusive Fertility Care for Young Cancer Patients
    • Dr Sarah Lensen awarded Best Clinical Paper at SANZ25 for her presentation titled: Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGTA): A Systematic Review and Methodological Evaluation of Randomised Controlled Trials
    • IFPA 2025 -  Held in Germany 17-20 September, PhD Student Maya Robinson won the Placenta New Investigator Award,  PhD Student Student Sunhild Hartmann gave a talk  about the potential role of Activin A in placenta and how high levels seen in preeclampsia might contribute to the disease.  PhD Student Georgia Wong  won a Poster Prize. Georgia Wong Maya Robertson Bianca Fato & Sunhild Hartmann all received  New Investigator Travel awards at IFPA2025.

    • Dr Lucy Bartho, Dr Bianca Fato & Dr Natasha de Alwis were all awarded MDHS ECA conference support  grants
    • 2025 Graeme Clark Institute Diversity in STEM Awards 
      • Maya Robertson (PhD Student) awarded the Graeme Clark Institute Top-up scholarship for their work
      • Mahnaz Sharifi (PhD Student) awarded the Runner Up Prize of 2025 GCI Diversity in STEM Student Award
      • Dr Natasha de Alwis and her collaborators in FEIT were awarded the Cross-Faculty Seed Funding Scheme
    • Dr Melvin Marzan was awarded a Melbourne Climate Futures Climate Research Accelerator CRX grant for 2026 for his project "Hot Spots: High-Resolution Heat Indicators for Climate-Vulnerable Pregnancies”
    • Dr Tanya Tripathi awarded Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation funding for her project "Structured early childhood developmental monitoring for infants born with congenital cytomegalovirus infection: a pilot study”

    • Dr Elif Kadife awarded a 2025 MDHS Momentum Fellowship
    • A/Prof Fiona Brownfoot awarded a NHMRC Development Grants 2025
    • Prof Lisa Hui & A/Prof Fiona Brownfoot awarded  2025 Ideas Grants
    • The Dr Hubert Sydney Jacobs Memorial Scholarship, awarded to Dr Hannah Gordon for her groundbreaking research on diabetes in pregnancy
    • The Arthur Nyulasy Prize, presented to Dr Natasha Pritchard for her work on the FROGS fetal growth calculator
    • The inaugural 'Heart of the Herd' award, recognising Professor Tu'uhevaha Kaitu'u-Lino for her exceptional embodiment of the department's values
    • Dept OGN Honouring the Honoraries Awards  awarded to Dr Carl Kuschel, Dr Debra Gook, A/Prof Rose Boland, Mandy Lobley and  A/Prof Orla McNally
    • Research Symposium Student Awards 2025
      • Best 3MT Prestation as voted by the audience: Dr Monica McGauran
      • Most Creative 3MT Prestation as voted by the R&RS Committee: Dorcas Serwaa
      • Best Graduate Research Final Year Prestation as voted by the R&RS Committee: Awarded to both Alexandra Roddy Mitchell & Michaela Sacco
    • Trevor B Kilvington Bequest 2026 awarded to Prof Tu’uhevaha Kaitu’u-Lino, A/Prof Fiona Brownfoot and Dr Elif Kadife
    • Henry and Rachel Ackman Travelling Scholarships - 2025 round 2 awarded to Dr Zobaida Edib
    • Professor Tu'uhevaha Kaitu'u-Lino is a Dean’s Innovation Grant recipient for 2025
    • Dorcas Serwaa (a committee member in the UoM African Students Outreach Program) awarded in the 2025 University of Melbourne Excellence Awards for Global, Place and Community Excellence, Award for Excellence in Building Student Connection and Belonging
    • Dr Wei Zhou awarded a CASS Travel Award
    • A/Prof Anthea Lindquist promoted to Level D
    • Dr Melvin Marzan promoted to Level B

You can also view our student achievements including  our PhD Graduate Honours Board via the link below

Student achievements