Carola Vinuesa at The John Curtin School of Medical Research. Photo by Karen Edwards.
Professor Carola Vinuesa from The Australian National University has won a new fellowship recognising Australia's top female medical and health researchers. Professor Vinuesa, who is based at The John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU, is one of three recipients of the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) inaugural Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship. The other two award winners are Associate Professor Amanda Leach from the Menzies School of Research in Darwin and Associate Professor Christine Roberts from the University of Sydney. The new fellowship aims to foster the career development of female scientists excelling in biomedical, clinical and public health research. The fellowship also recognises the outstanding achievements of Australian Nobel Laureate Professor Elizabeth Blackburn. The fellowship was announced today by the Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon and the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler. "Professor Blackburn's stellar international career, which includes the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2009, has inspired the NHMRC to recognise the next generation of Australian women in science," said Ms Roxon.
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