Selected achievements

Recent awards

2016 ECDO Career Award for Excellence in Cell Death Research

2016 Fellow, Australian Academy of Medical & Health Sciences

2014 Einstein Award of the Chinese Academy of Science

2011 Victoria Prize

2009 Associate (Foreign) Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation

Grants and funding 

2003-2021  Program Grants, National Health and Medical Research Council (CIA since 2017)

2001-2022  Specialized Center of Research Grants, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

2002-2022  Research Fellowships (Senior Professional Research Fellow), National Health and Medical Research Council

2015-2018  Venture Grant, Cancer Council Victoria

2001, 2011, 2015 Equipment and Infrastructure Grants, Australian Cancer Research Foundation

Service to the community 

Advisory Board, Faculty of 1000 Medical Research and Biology

Co-Organiser, EMBO Workshops on Animal Models in Cell Death Research and Cancer, Obergurgl, Austria, 2009, 2011, 2013

Associate Editor for J Exp Med, Genes to Cells, Cell Death Differ, Int J Mol Med, Curr Opin Immunol, and J Cell Biol