2024 Awards

Clinical Trials and Interventions (1)

IMPACT and Deakin Awards

Outstanding Publication Award

  • Dr Samantha Russell

Drug Discovery, Repurposing Therapeutics and Biomarkers (7)

IMPACT and Deakin Awards

IMPACT Outstanding PhD Completion Award

  • Dr Trang Truong

IMPACT Outstanding Publication Award

  • Dr Trang Truong
  • Dr Bruna Panizzutti
  • Dr Zoe Liu
  • Yuan Jiang

IMPACT Outstanding Service Award

  • Dr Rasika Samarasinghe

Food and Mood (16)

External Awards

2024 Achievement Award for Outstanding Partnership and Collaboration from Equally Well Australia

  • Dr Tetyana Rocks

Finalist in the Victorian Premier’s Awards for Health and Medical Research

  • Dr Samantha Dawson

Barwon Health Symposium: Best Paper of the Year Award

  • Professor Adrienne O’Neil (Clinical and cost-effectiveness of remote-delivered, online lifestyle therapy versus psychotherapy for reducing depression: results from the CALM non-inferiority, randomised trial)

Deakin University Three Minute Thesis (3MT®)/Visualise Your Thesis (VYT) 2024 Grand Final

  • Runner up: PhD candidate Emma Todd

Dietitians Australia 2024 Outstanding Contribution Award

  • Dr Tetyana Rocks – one of only two awarded, in recognition of her major, sustained, and far-reaching contributions at a national level to the profession and Dietitians Australia

Alfred Deakin Medal for their doctoral theses (Jan)

  • Dr Melissa Lane

Scholarship the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)

  • Rebecca Orr to attend the inaugural Preventive Mental Health Symposium 2024

IMPACT and Deakin Awards

Professor IMPACT Best Publication of the Year Award

  • Dr Heidi Staudacher

IMPACT Community Impact Award

  • Dr Sarah Gauci

IMPACT Clinician-led Research Award

  • Dr Jessica Green

IMPACT Liam Ryan Award

  • Rebecca Orr

IMPACT Notable Contribution to Workplace Culture Award

  • Tayla John

IMPACT Outstanding PhD Completion Award

  • Dr Madi West

IMPACT Showcase: Best Afternoon Presentation

  • Debbie Ashtree for her presentation on the Global burden of disease Lifestyle And mental Disorders (GLAD) Project

People’s Choice Award, 2024 Cross-Institute Showcase (IMPACT, IHT and IPAN)

  • Dr Samantha Dawson for her presentation during Session 1 – Digital technologies to optimise health in the 21st century

People’s Choice Award, 2024 Cross-Institute Showcase (IMPACT, IHT and IPAN)

  • Dr Tetyana Rocks for her presentation during Session 1 – Digital technologies to optimise health in the 21st century

Infection, Immunity and Cancer (10)

External Awards

People’s choice Honours Presentation Award, Burnet Student Symposium

  • Rachael Yong (Alyssa Barry)

Research Poster Award Barwon Health Research Symposium:

  • Tiffany Pe (Amanda Wade)

IMPACT and Deakin Awards

Honours Academic Merit Award

  • Kahlia Szaboo (Tania de Koning-Ward)
  • Runner up Jonah Iveijia (Richard Williams)

Honours Improvement Award

  • Runner up: Rachael Yong (Alyssa Barry)

IMPACT Best Publication of the Year Award

  • Somayyeh Heidary

IMPACT Excellence in Engagement with Industry Partners Award

  • Dr Luke Chong

IMPACT Outstanding Publication Award

  • Dr Rocky Chowdhury

IMPACT Rising Star Award

  • Dr Sajal Kumar Saha

IMPACT Showcase: Best IMPACT in a SNAP award

  • Rachael Yong

Mental Health and Neuroscience (6)

External Awards

2024 Australian Mental Health Prize

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor Michael Berk

Barwon Health 2024 Peter Foyster Award for Mental Health Service Excellence Health

  • Dr James McClure

2024 World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Young Investigator Award

  • Professor Jee Hyun Kim

IMPACT and Deakin Awards

Deakin University Three Minute Thesis (3MT®)/Visualise Your Thesis (VYT) 2024 Grand Final

  • People’s Choice: PhD candidate Allegra Chajinsi Gaza

IMPACT International Engagement Award

  • Dr Najmeh Davoodian

IMPACT Supervision and Mentorship Award

  • Dr Wong Yen Ting

Molecular Medicine (6)

External Awards

Education Award at the City of Greater Geelong Women in Community Life Awards

  • Dr Kat Aston-Mourney

The 19th GMCC Dean McInnes Travel Award

  • Chloe Love

IMPACT and Deakin Awards

IMPACT Outstanding Service Award

  • A/Prof Kathryn Aston-Mourney

IMPACT Outstanding Publication Award

  • Dr Cuong Viet Pham

IMPACT Showcase: Best Morning Presentation

  • Maria Deronjic for her presentation on Histone Deacetylase 5 and its role in Breast Cancer metabolism

IMPACT Showcase: Best Poster

  • Chloe Love for her research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and its connection to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children from the Barwon region

Population Health (5)

External Awards

Alfred Deakin Medal for doctoral thesis

  • Behnaz Azimi Manavi

Inaugural Barwon Health Research Career Achievement Award

  • Professor Mark Kotowicz, Dept of Diabetes and Endocrinology

Publication award from “Calcified Tissue International & Musculoskeletal Research” for international publishing excellence

  • Dr Pamela Rufus-Membere et al. (The paper ‘Reference Intervals for Bone Impact Microindentation in Healthy Adults: A Multi-Centre International Study’ was among the journal’s 8 most highly-cited original articles of 2023/2024)

IMPACT and Deakin Awards

IMPACT International Engagement Award

  • Dr Shae Quirk

IMPACT Notable Contribution to Workplace Culture Award

  • Dr Kara Anderson

Multiple (5)

2024 Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor Felice Jacka OAM
  • Professor Alison Yung
  • Dr André Carvalho
  • Deakin Distinguished Professor Michael Berk

IMPACT Community Impact Award

  • CARN