Luminaries of the Melbourne Medical School

Graduates

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (MBBS 1922) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960 with Peter Medawar for their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance

Sir John Eccles (MBBS 1925) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane

Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (MBBS 1967) – has led a therapeutic revolution changing the course of medical practice and improving the lives of millions of people suffering from autoimmune diseases across the world

Dr Margaret Henderson OBE (MBBS 1938) – first woman appointed honorary physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

Professor David de Kretser AC (MBBS 1962) – founding director of the Monash Institute of Repro-duction and Development; immediate past Governor of Victoria

Professor Sir Peter Morris (MBBS 1957) - Nuffield Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Oxford; leadership in the development of transplant science and surgery has revolutionised immunology research and the practice of transplant surgery

Dame Jean Macnamara DBE (MBBS 1922) – as paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital and medical officer for Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children she conducted leading research into poliomyelitis and worked tirelessly to improve the lives of victims of polio

Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown OBE (MBBS 1914) – pioneer of the early infant welfare movement

Professor Judith Whitworth AC (MBBS 1967) – her expert leadership and guidance in the area of medical research has placed her in key governance roles in Australia and across the world

Staff

Professor Peter Doherty AC (currently Laureate Professor Microbiology & Immunology) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996 with Rolf Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell-mediated immune defence

Professor Emeritus Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE (past Director of the WEHI & Professor Medical Biology) – with an impressive body of research into immunology and after over 30 years at the helm of the WEHI Sir Gus now spends his ‘retirement’ on the world stage advising key policy organisations on the advancement of global health.