Funding for this award was donated to the School by Professor Hiroto Naora, who was one of the founding faculty members of the ANU Research School of Biological Sciences (RSBS). He joined the School in 1968, and established the Molecular Biology Unit, which he directed until his official retirement in the mid-1990s. The Hiroto Naora scholarship is awarded annually to the winning presentations of the bi-annual RSB Higher Degree Research student conferences held every April and November. The first awards were made in 2011. 

Following Professor Naora’s death in 2019, additional funding for this award was donated by his daughter Honami Naora, in his memory.

Recipients:

• 2024 Abigail Graetz (PS), Ivan Jeremias (E&E), Ciara Wallis (BSB), Lisa Fontana (E&E), Suyan Yee (PS)
• 2023 Kate O'Hara (E&E), Tanya Skinner (PS), Ciara Wallis (BSB)
• 2022 Putter Tiatragul (E&E), Capella Maguire (BSB), Carl McCombe (PS)
• 2021 Meng-Han Chung (E&E), Holly Beckett (PS), Jenni Hayward (BSB)
• 2020 Lauren Harrison (E&E), Gigi Wong (PS), Gregory Gauthier-Coles (BSB)
• 2019 Kalya Subasinghe (E&E), Pravin Khambalkar (PS), Vanessa Howieson (BSB)
• 2018 Eve Cooper (E&E), Sanduni Hapuarachchi (BSB), Yu Zhou (PS)
• 2017 Ariel Ivanovici (PS), Thomas Rowell (E&E), Sarah Shafik (BSB)
• 2016 Philippa Beale (E&E), Florence Danila (PS), Erick Tjhin (BSB)
• 2015 Liam Bailey (EEG), Shao-Yu Lin (PS), Kathryn Parker (BSB)
• 2014 Damien Esquerre (EEG), Tiffany Russell (BSB), Eli Thynne (PS)
• 2013 Esther Rajendran (BSB), Marlene Reichel (PS), Claudia Rodriguez (EEG)
• 2012 Kai Chan (PS), Andrew Kahn (EEG), Michael Wong (BSB)
• 2011 Sandra Binning (EEG), Lauren Du Fall (PS), Kylie Easton (BSB).

Contact: Spencer Whitney spencer.whitney@anu.edu.au