BMedSc(Hons) prizes

Highest achieving BMedSc(Hons) student award

This prize is awarded to the student who achieves the highest overall mark for BMedSc(Hons) at Clayton or Malaysia within each calendar year. Value: $1000

2025 winner

Highest achieving BMedSc(Hons) student award archive View

	2024 - Lucy Porter Thesis Title: Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Dysfunction in Crohn’s Disease: A Pediatric Patient-Derived Small Intestinal Organoid Model Supervisors: Professor Helen Abud, Dr Edward Giles and Dr Diana Micati Find out more
	2023 - Sofia Carter Thesis Title: Causative organisms and antibiotic susceptibility and use in urinary tract infections among adults with a vagina attending the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre over five years Supervisors: Professor Catriona Bradshaw, Dr Erica Plummer and Dr Lenka Vodstrcil Find out more
	2022 - Molly Horne Thesis Title: Suppressive Antibiotics and the Intestinal Microbiome Supervisors: Ian Woolley, Jillian Lau & Sam Forster Find out more
	2021 - Vinay Goel Thesis Title: Association of Breast Arterial Calcification with Cardiovascular Disease: Novel cardiovascular disease risk marker in women Supervisors: Nitesh Nerlekar and Adam Brown Find out more
	2020 - Amber Xiaofei Wang Thesis Title: Effect of Umbilical Cord Blood Cell Therapy on Grey Matter Vascular Injury in the Growth-Restricted Fetal Brain Supervisors: Atul Malhotra and Margie Castillo-Melendez Find out more
	2019 - Gillian Lim Thesis Title: The physiology of reflux following sleeve gastrectomy Supervisors: Wendy Brown, Paul Burton & Geoff Hebbard Find out more
	2018 - Angie Shiqi Xiang Thesis Title: Identifying lipidomic changes associated with cold exposure and brown adipose tissue activity Supervisors: Prof. Bronwyn Kingwell, Dr. Andrew Carey, Prof. Peter Meikle
	2017 - Victoria Tan Phooi Khei (Monash University, Malaysia) Thesis Title: An investigation into the molecular mechanisms of Parkinsons Disease Supervisors: Prof. Ishwar Parhar and Dr. Shogo Moriya
	2016 - Sasha Skinner Thesis Title: Experimental intra-amniotic carbon dioxide insufflation for fetal surgery Supervisors: Dr. Ryan Hodges and Dr. Kelly Crossley Find out more
	2015 - Jennifer Zhou (Inaugural Prize Winner) Thesis Title: Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells and Dendritic Cells in Development of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Lesions Supervisors: Prof. Ban-Hock Toh and Prof. Alex Bobik Find out more

BMedSc(Hons) prizes offered by various schools

School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health (SCS) View

2025 winners

Cyrus Raki

Stephen Holdsworth Award for Medical Student Research (Value: $500)
Awarded to the graduating student with the highest impact factor publication or cumulative impact factor from multiple publications arising from a BMedSc(Hons) undertaken at the SCS.

Angela Lin

Shaun Summers Award for Medical Student Research (Value: $500)
Awarded to the graduating student achieving the highest grade for a BMedSc(Hons) undertaken at the SCS.

Julie Boktor

Harry Garlick Award* (Value $1000)
Awarded to the BMedSc(Hons) student enrolled through the Department of Medicine at the SCS with the highest academic marks for entry into BMedSc(Hons). The successful student must have completed Year 4/C before commencing BMedSc(Hons).

Yvette Raymond

David Healy Award for Medical Student PhD (Value: $500)
Awarded to the graduating student achieving the highest grade for a BMedSc(Hons) undertaken at the SCS.

*Prof Harry Garlick was one of the founding fathers of the Monash University Medical School and an eminent physician. He was the first Dean of Prince Henry’s clinical school which later amalgamated with Queen Victoria Hospital to become Monash Medical Centre. He was keenly interested in medical education and bench to bedside translation of research. The prize was bequeathed in his name to encourage a high achieving student to pursue a research programme in medical science in the Department of Medicine. Obituary to Harry Garlick in the 1992 edition of Chiron (page 63).

SCS BMedSc(Hons) prizes archive

2024
Mahesh Sakthivel Stephen Holdsworth Award for Medical Student Research	Emma Aldous Shaun Summers Award for Medical Student Research	Seiyon Sivakumar Harry Garlick Award

2023
Molly Horne Stephen Holdsworth Award for Medical Student Research	Zachary Warren Shaun Summers Award for Medical Student Research	Anthony Salib Harry Garlick Award

School of Translational Medicine (STM) View

Prizes offered

Awarded to the final year student whose BMedSc(Hons) undertaken at the STM is determined to have made a significant impact on their field of study (Value: $500).
To reward students who complete a research year and do exceptionally in clinical medicine in their final year (Value: $500).

2025 winners

Khy Yie Choo

Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence

Xireaili Feierdaiweisi

Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence

BMedSc(Hons) prizes archive

2023 winners

Justin Lineham

Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence

Shreya Achar

Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence
Tianrui Ren
Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence Olivia Leyden
Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence
Michael Dong
Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence
Madeleine Tse
Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence
Maria Selvadurai
Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence
Daniel Edelman
Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence
Angie Xiang
Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence
Crystal Gao
Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence
Ned Lathem
Hatem Salem Award for Medical Research Excellence
Louisa Thong
Nip Thomson Award for Medical Student Clinical and Research Excellence

BMedSc(Hons) Universitas Indonesia Dean's Award

Every year, students from Universitas Indonesia complete BMedSc(Hons) at Monash University Australia. When they return to Indonesia, the highest achieving student in each cohort is awarded the Dean's Award at a prize ceremony.

Student name:  Bhavesh Nico Lalwani
Thesis title:  Validation of Uncertainty Quantification in AI-Derived Liver PDFF Measurements Using MRI
Supervisors:  Prof. Sergio Uribe, Dr. Juan Pablo Meneses
Student name:  Ida Ayu Kyara Ferbena Trininta
Thesis title:  Evaluating VCP979 as a Novel Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Fibrotic Compound for Reversal Therapy of Cardiac Remodeling in Mice with Established HFpEF
Supervisors:  A/Prof. Bing Wang, Prof. David Kaye, Dr. Ruth Magaye
Student name:  Elena Vianca
Thesis title:  Effects of Valproic Acid on p300-related transcription factors: a potential contributor to mechanism of teratogenicity
Supervisors:  Dr. Alison Anderson,  Dr. Ana-Antonic Baker, Prof. Terence O’Brien
Student name:  Taqwa Rizki Fadhilah
Thesis title:  Incidence and Impact of Sleep and Pain Symptoms in Adults Surviving Moderate or Severe Acquired Brain Injury
Supervisors: Prof. Natasha A. Lannin,  Prof. Richelle Mychasiuk
Student name: Timothy Marvelianto Tedjo
Thesis title: Is injecting drug use a risk factor for methicillin resistance among patients with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections? A retrospective cohort study
Supervisors: A/Prof. Andrew J Stewardson, Dr. Adam Jenney
Student name: Pandya Praharsa Bramundito
Thesis title: A Novel Glucocorticoid to Prevent and Minimise the Impacts of Preterm Birth
Supervisors: A/Prof. Megan Wallace, Prof. Timothy Cole, Dr. Filippe Oliveira

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BMedSc(Hons) prizes

Highest achieving BMedSc(Hons) student award

2025 winner

Highest achieving BMedSc(Hons) student award archive View

BMedSc(Hons) prizes offered by various schools

School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health (SCS) View

2025 winners

Cyrus Raki

Angela Lin

Julie Boktor

Yvette Raymond

School of Translational Medicine (STM) View

Prizes offered

2025 winners

Khy Yie Choo

Xireaili Feierdaiweisi

BMedSc(Hons) prizes archive

2023 winners

Justin Lineham

Shreya Achar

BMedSc(Hons) Universitas Indonesia Dean's Award

BMedSc(Hons) prizes

Highest achieving BMedSc(Hons) student award

2025 winner

Eleanor McLean

Highest achieving BMedSc(Hons) student award archive View

BMedSc(Hons) prizes offered by various schools

School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health (SCS) View

2025 winners

Cyrus Raki

Angela Lin

Julie Boktor

Yvette Raymond

School of Translational Medicine (STM) View

Prizes offered

2025 winners

Khy Yie Choo

Xireaili Feierdaiweisi

BMedSc(Hons) prizes archive

2023 winners

Justin Lineham

Shreya Achar

BMedSc(Hons) Universitas Indonesia Dean's Award