Grant Assessment Committee (the MRAC)

The trustees of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) appoint a Medical Research Advisory Committee (MRAC) whose members are scientists of the highest national and, in some cases, global repute. These leaders in Australian cancer research consider all applications received for grants funding and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees of ACRF.

Procedures of the Committee include assessment of applications by referees and independent expert assessors, visits to sites where grants will be applied to fund laboratories and house equipment and interviews of selected short-listed candidates. Membership of the Foundation’s MRAC is authorised by the Commonwealth Department of Health.

Each member is appointed on a three yearly basis, after which they may either stand down or seek re-election. For details of the Foundation’s grants procedures click here.

Members of the MRAC Committee of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (for full bio’s click on member names)

 

Professor Ian Frazer, Chairman. MB, ChB (Edinburgh), MD (Melbourne). (Appointed 2005 and appointed Chairman in 2009).

Director, Diamantina Institute for Cancer Immunology and Metabolic Medicine (DI).

 

 

Professor Mathew A Vadas, BSc, MB, BS, PhD, DSc (Appointed 1997, Chairman 1997-2007).

Executive Director & Professor Medicine, Central Clinical School, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine & Cell Biology, University of Sydney

 

 

Professor Jennifer Stow, BSc (Hons), PhD (Appointed 2009).

NHMRC Principal Research Fellow

Deputy Director (Research) and Group Leader Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

 

 

Professor Philip Hogg BSc (Hons), PhD UQ (Appointed 2003)

NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow

Director, UNSW Cancer Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney

 

 

Professor Doug Hilton BSc (Hons), PhD (Appointed 2008)

NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Laboratory Head, WEHI

Professor, The University of Melbourne

 

 

Professor Geoffrey J Lindeman BSc(Med) MBBS(Hons) PhD FRACP,(Appointed 2005)

Department Of Medical Oncology and Familial Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium Laboratory, The Walter and Eliza Hall

Institute of Medical Research/Rotary Bone Marrow Research Labs

 

Professor Christopher R Parish BAs, PhD (Appointed 1997)

Professorial Fellow and Head Immunology & Cell Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra

 

 

Professor Jerry M Adams, PhD, FAA, FRS (Appointed 2007)

Joint Head of the Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne;

 

 

 

Professor Joseph A Trapani, PhD (Appointed 2007)

Deputy Director of Research and Head of the Cancer Immunology Program at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne;

 

 

 

Professor Peter Klinken, BSc, PhD, Dip Ed (Appointed 2007)

Director with the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research in the Centre for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia.

 

 

 

Professor Thomas Jack Martin AO, (Appointed 1997)

Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne and John Holt Fellow, Bone Joint & Cancer Unit at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne. MRAC Chairman in 2008.

 

 

Professor Emma Whitelaw. (Appointed 2012).

NHMRC Australia Fellow

Head, Cell and Molecular Biology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane.

 

Professor Roger Reddel, BSc (Med), MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FAA. (Appointed 2012)

Director, Children’s Medical Research Institute, Westmead Sydney.
Lorimer Dods Professor, Sydney University.

 

 

 

Professor Michelle Haber AM, BSc (Psych) (Hons), PhD, Hon DSc UNSW. (Appointed 2012)

Executive Director, Children’s Cancer Institute Australia, Sydney
Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW.