Australian Academy of Science Announces New Awards

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The Australian Academy of Science has announced two new national awards to be presented to early and mid-career researchers.
The Gustav Nossal Medal for Global Health and Jacques Miller Medal for Experimental Biomedicine are named after pre-eminent Australian scientists.
Australian Academy of Science President Professor Andrew Holmes said: “It is fantastic to be able to honour the tremendous contributions of two living legends in Australian science with these new awards.”
“Gus Nossal, a former Academy president, has made outstanding contributions to vaccine research and public health, particularly in the developing world,” Professor Holmes said.
“Jacques Miller’s contributions to medicine have also been highly significant and led to his election to the Academy. He discovered the function of the thymus, an organ we now know is a fundamental part of the immune system.
“I hope these new medals will encourage our up-and-coming researchers in the fields of public health and biomedical sciences to aspire to similar heights of scientific endeavour.”
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The awards are open to experimental researchers up to 15 years post PhD.
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 the Academy of Science website.