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LIMS Fellowships

We have a proud tradition of high-achieving early- and mid-career researchers through research fellowships funded through our Endowment Fund.

After initially awarding four fellowships in 2011 and 2012, the Institute established three Fellowships named after leading molecular researchers at La Trobe University:

  • Emeritus Professor Bruce Stone AM FAATST
  • Emeritus Professor Nick Hoogenraad AO
  • Emeritus Professor Marilyn Anderson AO FAA FTSE FAICD

As well as the three named Fellowships, we also provide funding for other specific purposes as needed to support emerging scientists to conduct internationally competitive, multidisciplinary molecular research while equipping them with the skills, networks and training they need to accelerate their careers and establish themselves as experts in their fields.

Through each Fellowship, we are proud to support the next generation of scientific leaders while celebrating pioneering researchers whose work continues to have far-reaching impact in biomedical science.

The LIMS Bruce Stone Fellowship is a career launchpad for high-achieving, early-career scientists who are within 5 years of PhD completion.

Through research and funding support, mentoring and more, the LIMS Bruce Stone Fellowship aims to help emerging scientists conduct internationally competitive, multidisciplinary molecular research to build the track record they need to accelerate their career, secure future funding, and establish themselves as leaders in their field.

The LIMS Bruce Stone Fellowship offers:

  • the opportunity to establish an independent laboratory and research direction
  • salary support and research funding
  • mentoring from senior researchers
  • support to extend networks and develop collaborative partnerships across scientific disciplines.
  • LIMS Fellows Cohort Program membership
  • leadership opportunities.

About Emeritus Professor Bruce Stone AM FAATST

Professor Bruce Stone was the foundation Head of Biochemistry at La Trobe University.

Through his career Professor Stone was awarded the FB Guthrie Award for Cereal Chemistry (RACI), Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, the Prime Minister’s Centenary Medal, the Institute for Scientific Information Australian Citation Laureate, and the Thomas Burr Osborne Award (American Association of Cereal Chemists). He was internationally renowned for his work on plant polysaccharide components in the cell walls of cereals and grasses, with research outcomes being applied to the solution of agricultural issues such as grain quality.

The LIMS Nick Hoogenraad Fellowship is a career launchpad for high-achieving, early-career scientists who are within 5 years of PhD completion.

Through research and funding support, mentoring and more, the LIMS Nick Hoogenraad Fellowship aims to help emerging scientists conduct internationally competitive, multidisciplinary molecular research to build the track record they need to accelerate their career, secure future funding, and establish themselves as leaders in their field.

The LIMS Nick Hoogenraad Fellowship offers:

  • the opportunity to establish an independent laboratory and research direction
  • salary support and research funding
  • mentoring from senior researchers
  • support to extend networks and develop collaborative partnerships across scientific disciplines.
  • LIMS Fellows Cohort Program membership
  • leadership opportunities.

About Emeritus Professor Nick Hoogenraad AO

Professor Nick Hoogenraad was the inaugural Director of LIMS from 2009 – 2014, and for more than 20 years was the Head of Biochemistry at La Trobe University. A cell biologist and cancer researcher, Professor Hoogenraad explored how mitochondria form and function, and how proteins are guided and folded correctly within cells. Throughout his career he made key discoveries, including the mitochondrial stress response and the role of HSP90 in moving proteins into mitochondria.

In addition to winning many major awards for his research, Professor Hoogenraad was the visionary driving force behind the establishment of LIMS and the creation of the LIMS1 building on La Trobe’s Melbourne campus.

The LIMS Marilyn Anderson Fellowship seeks to accelerate the careers of women in molecular science who have experienced an interruption.

Supporting women at Academic Levels C or D, the LIMS Marilyn Anderson Fellowship provides support for high-achieving women in science to conduct internationally competitive, multidisciplinary molecular research to build the track record they need to secure future funding, establish themselves as leaders in their field, and ensure long-term career opportunities.

The LIMS Marilyn Anderson Fellowship offers:

  • the opportunity to establish an independent laboratory and research direction
  • salary support and research funding
  • mentoring from senior researchers
  • support to extend networks and develop collaborative partnerships across scientific disciplines.
  • LIMS Fellows Cohort Program membership
  • leadership opportunities.

About Emeritus Professor Marilyn Anderson AO FAA FTSE FAICD

Professor Marilyn Anderson is a long-time LIMS member and one of La Trobe University’s first female professorial biochemists. Through her career, she was awarded the Lemberg Medal (ASBMB), the Leach Medal (Lorne Protein), and a Ramaciotti Biomedical Research Award, and was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2014.

Professor Anderson’s studies focused on peptides and proteins produced by plants for protection against insect pests and fungal pathogens, leading to the establishment of the spin-out company Hexima Ltd.

Meet our current LIMS-funded Fellows: