Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee is primarily concerned with adjudicating on applications for Research Grants and on applications from students for Summer Research Scholarships. To cover the breadth of topics submitted, the committee is relatively large to ensure it has representatives from all the major sub-disciplines of medical research.

2026 committee membership

Chair: Professor Greg Jones, Surgical Sciences, 2003- 

Deputy Chair: Associate Professor Heather Cunliffe, Pathology (co-opted), 2015

Professor Rob Walker, Medicine (co-opted), 1992- 

Associate Professor Nick Heng, Dentistry (co-opted), 2009- 

Professor Ivan Sammut, Pharmacology and Toxicology (co-opted), 2012-

Associate Professor Chris Brown, Biochemistry (co-opted), 2016-

Professor Rajesh Katare, Physiology (nominee of the School of Biomedical Sciences), 2018-

Dr Sierra Beck, Medicine (nominee Dunedin School of Medicine), 2019- 

Dr Natasha Flack, Anatomy (nominee OMSRS), 2023-

Associate Professor Allan Gamble, Pharmacy (co-opted), 2024-

Dr Joon Kim, Physiology (co-opted), 2025-

Dr Emily Gray (President OMSRS, ex officio), 2025-

Dr Nils Birkholz, Microbiology and Immunology (co-opted), 2025-