Florey Fellowships

Providing security and support for leading researchers is vital to promoting scientific excellence and a culture of success. The need for sustainability in scientific funding is widely acknowledged across the medical research sector and this was heard loud and clear through the Future Florey Project.

As a direct consequence, in November 2022, The Florey announced the successful applicants for four Florey Fellowship positions.

These Florey Fellowships offer recipients salary support and encourage ‘big idea’ science with the potential to have meaningful and enduring outcomes.

Professor Chris Reid has been awarded a five-year Senior Research Fellowship to continue to drive pre-clinical programs that will create and validate therapeutic strategies targeting pathogenic ion channels implicated in epilepsy and other neurological disorders.

A further three philanthropic Fellowships of three years were awarded to Dr Rebecca Nisbet, Dr Lindsea Booth and Dr Fazel Shabanpoor – funded by a generous donation from Allan Myers AC KC and Maria Myers AC.

Dr Nisbet is working on developing next-generation antibody therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr Booth’s research uses state-of-art genetic engineering techniques to selectively modify how the brain communicates with the heart and kidneys in disease.

Dr Shabanpoor is researching the development of brain-penetrating peptides and antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutics for treatment of neurological diseases.

These Fellowships are a testament to the outstanding achievements of our individuals in their respective fields of expertise and The Florey look forward to seeing their work continue to flourish in the coming years.