Professor Stephen Jane

MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA, FAAHMS, Dean, Sub-Faculty of Translational Medicine and Public Health, Monash University, Director of Research, Alfred Health

Winner of the David de Kretser Medal

Professor Stephen Jane completed his medical degree at Monash University. He entered the physician training program at the Alfred, completing clinical/laboratory haematology and a PhD under Professor Hatem Salem, Director of the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases. He then spent five years in the United States of America, the first three as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, and the remainder on the faculty at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He returned to Australia in 1995 as a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow to the University of Melbourne at the Bone Marrow Research Laboratories in the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He became Director of the laboratories in 2000, a Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC in 2005 and a Professor of Medicine at University of Melbourne in 2006.

Professor Jane was appointed as the Head of Central Clinical School, Professor of Medicine, Monash University, and Director of Research for Alfred Health in 2011. He served in both these roles until 2019, and during this period increased the overall school revenue from $20M to $132M per annum, and research income from $12M to $66.2M per annum. He also recruited over 400 new researchers and 30 laboratory heads, including major groups in Neuroscience, Diabetes, Sexual Health, Psychiatry and Gastroenterology. As Director of Research for Alfred Health, he has overseen the appointment of 15 Professor/Directors with the health service, 8 of whom are now also Program Directors with the Alfred leadership team.

In 2019, he was appointed as the inaugural Dean of the Sub-faculty of Translational Medicine and Public Health at the Alfred precinct, overseeing both the Central Clinical School and School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine with a combined annual budget of over $300M. He is also an active member of the Clinical Haematology Service.

Professor Jane has a range of research interests investigating both developmental and acquired disorders of the blood and skin in mouse models. At a basic level, this involves the study of gene transcription. He has attracted over $46million in research funding and has published over 120 papers including articles in the premier journals Science, Nature Medicine and Developmental Cell. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2018.