Nenad Macesic wins Mollie Holman Award for PhD thesis

Dr Nenad Macesic wins Mollie Holman
medal for 2020 thesis.

Congratulations to Dr Nenad Macesic on winning the Mollie Holman award for 2020. The Mollie Holman Medal was established in 1998 and is named after the late pioneering physiologist Emeritus Professor Mollie Homan AO, in honour of her significant contributions to science and education. These medals are among the highest academic honours given by Monash University, and mark the recipients as researchers of the higher order.award.

Nenad's thesis is titled, "Combating Gram negative multi-drug resistance with insights from novel bioinformatics approaches". He was supervised by Professor Anton Peleg (Department of Infectious Diseases) and Dr Anne-Catrin Uhlemann (Columbia University). The PhD was awarded 11 June 2020.

Congratulations to Shane Nanayakkara on Mollie Holman medal win!

Dr Shane Nanayakkara

Congratulations to Dr Shane Nanayakkara on his win of a Mollie Holman Medal for an outstanding PhD thesis!

These medals are among the highest academic honours that Monash University bestows, and mark the recipients as researchers of the higher order.

Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Dr Michael Roche

Dr Michael Roche has been awarded the 2012 Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal by the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Michael completed his PhD thesis last year in CCS's Department of Medicine, supervised by Associate Professors Paul Gorry and Melissa Churchill, Heads respectively of the Burnet Institute's Laboratories, HIV Molecular Pathogenesis and HIV in the CNS. His thesis title is: "HIV-1 Envelope protein determinants of viral tropism and antiviral drug resistance."