Professor Arthur Christopoulos receives NHMRC Research Excellence Award

Professor Arthur Christopoulos, FAA, FAHMS

01 April 2026

Monash University’s Professor Arthur Christopoulos, FAA, FAHMS, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been honoured with a prestigious 2025 Research Excellence Award from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia.

NHMRC’s Research Excellence Awards are handed annually to top-ranked researchers following peer review of applications to the NHMRC’s highly competitive grant schemes. Professor Christopoulos has received the 2025 NHMRC Peter Doherty Investigator Grant Award (Leadership), recognising the highest ranked recipient in the national Leadership category of Investigator Grants.

Professor Christopoulos earned the award for his exceptional work in the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) developing new classes of more targeted medicines to tackle major global health burdens, in particular cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s Disease.

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