Jennifer Martin is announced as the new DVC R at the University of Wollongong, starting in March. Professor Martin is now at Griffith U where she is director of the university’s Institute for Drug Discovery.

Aileen Morton-Robinson from QUT is president of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium. Peter Anderson, also QUT, is VP research.

Griffith U’s Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik and Donald Staines have professorial research fellowships to work on chronic fatigue syndrome. Their work will be supported by $2m from the Stafford Fox Medical Research Fellowship.