GCRI - CSL Florey Medal
Another prestigious award for Graeme Clark
We would like to offer our congratulations to Professor Graeme Clark on being awarded the Florey Medal, Australia’s premier medical research prize. The award was presented on 21 November to Professor Clark at the 2011 Association of Australian Medical Research Institute’s annual dinner in Canberra in the presence of 90 of his peers. The Florey Medal was inaugurated in 1998 by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Sir Howard Florey, Australia’s Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of penicillin.
All of us involved at the Graeme Clark Research Institute are delighted at this latest award. In September, Graeme received the prestigious Zotterman Prize from the Swedish Physiological Society at a ceremony in the Nobel Forum at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm for his work in developing the multi-channel cochlear implant. In 2010, he was the recipient of the prestigious Lister Medal, presented every three years by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in recognition of contributions to surgical science.
Professor Clark was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1983 and a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2004. Amongst the many awards that Graeme has received are the Victoria Prize (1999), the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science (2004), the Zülch Prize (2007), and the Otto Schmitt Award (2009).
Listen to Ashley Hall's interview with Graeme Clark on ABC's website.
