“Thank You” Day Awards

Friday, 20 November - 6.30pm
BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

The “Thank You” Day Awards are the culmination of Research Australia's "Thank You" Day campaign to raise awareness of health and medical research in the community.  

The awards celebrate the achievements of individuals and organisations that have helped further research in Australia through corporate giving, philanthropy, advocacy or their own research contributionsand are nominated by Research Australia's members.   

The six Awards are:

Macquarie Group Foundation
Great Australian Philanthropy Award
The award is to recognise and encourage personal philanthropic donations over a period of time by an individual or family to health and medical research. 

Griffith University
Discovery Award
This is a new award to recognise an early career researcher (no more than five years past PhD) whose paper, patent or discovery has already demonstrated its importance or impact.

Advocacy Award
This award recognises an Australian from the health and medical research community, the media, a celebrity or a member of the community that has raised community awareness about the benefits of health and medical research and the need for increased funding.

Victorian Government
Leadership and Innovation Award
This award recognises an individual or organisation that has shown exceptional leadership and/or innovation towards making health and medical research a higher national priority. 

Pfizer Australia
Leadership in Corporate Giving Award
This award is to recognise and foster involvement of Australian businesses, both small and large, in advancing health and medical research in Australia.

Research Australia
Lifetime Achievement Award
This award honours a significant lifetime commitment to supporting and promoting health and medical research.