Professor Gail Risbridger

Director, Centre for Urological Research

Professor Gail Risbridger  gained her PhD in testicular paracrinology from Monash University in 1981. Over the next ten years she worked at both the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash University's Departments of Physiology and Anatomy.

Professor Risbridger was a founding member of the Monash Institute of Medical Research in 1991. Four years later, she was awarded an NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship, and spent a sabbatical as Visiting Professor at the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco in 1997.  Upon her return, she created the Centre for Urological Research in partnership with Associate Professor Mark Frydenberg (Department of Urology, Monash Medical Centre).

In 2006, Professor Risbridger received the British Endocrine Society Oceania Award in recognition of the significant contribution she has made to research in the field.

She has also been awarded an Academy of Science Fellowship, Kings College/Monash Fellowship and the Monash Silver Jubilee Prize in recognition for her work in prostate disease. She has generated intellectual property which has been used to establish Prostate Diagnostics Inc.

In August 2008, Professor Risbridger received Honorary Life Membership from the Endocrine Society of Australia, in recognition of her 30 years of service to endocrine research.

Professor Risbridger also acts as a consultant for pharmaceutical companies and serves on editorial boards and committees for NHMRC.