Selected achievements

Awards

2016 Westpac/Australian Financial Review Top 100 Women of Influence (Innovation)

2015 NHMRC RD Wright Career Development Fellowship (CDF-1)

2015 Young Tall Poppy of the Year Award

2013 L’Oreal for Women in Science Fellowship

2012 National Association of research fellows postdoctoral investigator of the year award

Grants and funding

2018 Robert Connor Dawes Foundation Grant

2018 CSIRO Professional Achievement Award in STEM

2018 NHMRC Project Grant “An Indigenous Australian Reference Genome: Indigenous Inclusion in the benefits of genomic medicine”

2017 Carrie’s Beanies for Brain Cancer Foundation Grant

2017 Financial Market’s Foundation for Children Grant

Service to the community 

Board Director, Monash Health 2016-current

Ambassador, Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health

Governing board member and member of scientific advisory board, National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (Australian National University)

Founding member, Women in Science Parkville Precinct (WISPP) committee

Committee member, Aurora Education foundation