Three neuroscience researchers are among 37 new Fellows elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in recognition of their outstanding contributions to health and medical research.
Professors Shijit Kapur, Lynne Bilston and Louisa Jorm and were elected to the Academy because “they have had a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of Australians and the world,” said the Academy’s President, Professor Ian Frazer.
‘We work with our Fellows to strengthen the health and medical research landscape in Australia. It is thanks to their expertise that we can play a valuable role in ensuring that Australia continues to address some of the world’s most pressing health challenges.”
Professor Kapur is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Melbourne. He was previously head of the ‘Maudsley’ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (loPPN) in London where his research interests in were in schizophrenia, neuroscience and brain imaging.
Professor Bilston is Conjoint Professor, Neuroscience Research Australia (NEURA). She is a biomedical engineer who began her research career looking at spinal cord injury and has developed several new MR imaging methods to measure tissue stiffness (MR elastography) and muscle motion (MR tagging) to the upper airway, She is currently leading examining upper airway muscle ‘neuromechanics’ using these techniques.