David de Kretser and Lifetime Achievement Medals
Winner of the 2025 David de Kretser Medal
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder AO
Rachelle Buchbinder is a rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, an NHMRC Investigator Fellow and Head, Musculoskeletal Health Unit and Wiser Health Care Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is known internationally as a vocal proponent of evidence-based medicine and for her landmark studies, particularly those examining treatments accepted into practice before their proper evaluation.
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Winner of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Medal
Professor Robert Parton FAA
Robert Parton studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Leicester before moving to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He received Royal Society and EMBO postdoctoral fellowships before becoming a junior group leader studying plasma membrane domains and cell surface dynamics. In 1996, he moved to the University of Queensland where he is currently a group leader in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Deputy Director of the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis.
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