Provided by the Kellion Foundation and the ADS for an Australian who has made an outstanding contribution in diabetes research, clinical or service areas in Australia. The recipient of the Award delivers the Kellion Plenary Lecture at the ADS Annual Scientific Meeting.

Previous Winners of the Kellion Award

• 2024: Glynis Ross
• 2023: Karin Jandeleit-Dahm
• 2022: Sophia Zoungas
• 2021: Stephen Twigg
• 2020: Thomas Kay
• 2019: Alicia Jenkins
• 2018: Jonathan Shaw
• 2017: Mark Febbraio
• 2016: Kerin O’Dea
• 2015: Stephen Colagiuri
• 2014: Timothy Davis
• 2013: Peter Colman
• 2012: Joseph Proietto
• 2011: Frank Alford
• 2010: Dennis Yue
• 2009: Michael Horowitz
• 2008: Martin Silink
• 2007: Ted Kraegen
• 2006: David James
• 2005: Mark Cooper
• 2004: Tim Welborn
• 2003: Paul Zimmet
• 2002: George Jerums
• 2001: Don Chisholm
• 2000: Len Harrison

This is a one year ‘bridging’ fellowship sponsored by the Australian Diabetes Society and is awarded to an ADS member who is not more than 6 years beyond their post-doctoral studies. This award is in honor of the late FIR ‘Skip’ Martin a founding member of the Australian Diabetes Society and the recipient must present their work at the ADS/ADEA Australasian Diabetes Congress.

• 2024: Matthew Hare, Lewin Small
• 2023: Sarah Glastras
• 2022: Arianne Sweeting
• 2021: Nicholas Hunt
• 2020: Devy Deliyanti
• 2019: James Krycer
• 2018: Kim Loh
• 2017: Chinmay Marathe 
• 2016: Mugdha V. Joglekar 
• 2015: Helen Barrett 
• 2014: Stephen Gray, Michael Pearen
• 2013: Darren Henstridge
• 2012: Anna Watson 
• 2011: Dorit Samocha-Bonet 
• 2010: Melinda Coughlan 
• 2009: Kate Graham

This Mid-Career Award supporting the career of a clinical diabetes researcher from endocrinology/diabetes clinicians who are members of the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) and are between 6-15 years’ post-doctoral degree. This award has been made possible by the generosity of Dr Ranji Wikramanayake, a long standing member of the Australian Diabetes Society. This award commenced in 2016.

• 2024: John Wentworth
• 2023: Priya Sumithran
• 2022: Anthony Russell
• 2021: Elif Ekinci
• 2020: Louise Maple-Brown
• 2019: Jenny Gunton
• 2018: Barbora de Courten
• 2017: Jerry Greenfield
• 2016: Sophia Zoungas

The Australian Diabetes Society together with the Lindsey Baudinet Family is pleased to announce the Lindsey Baudinet Rising Star Award in Type 1 Diabetes Research. The purpose of the award is to support eligible early-career researchers to pursue research in type 1 diabetes and its complications.

• 2024: Dale Morrison & Jennifer Snaith
• 2022: Mary Abraham
• 2021: Kirstine Bell
• 2020: Barbora Paldus & Wilson Wong
• 2019: Ki Wook Kim

This grant was funded by the Australian Diabetes Society and provided to the Diabetes Australia Research Trust for the ADS DARP Award.

• 2023: Not awarded
• 2022: Dragana Dragoljevic
• 2021: Abdul Waheed Khan
• 2020: Trevor Biden
• 2019: Clinton Bruce
• 2018: No DARP Award presented
• 2017: Matthew Watt
• 2016: Dorit Samocha-Bonet
• 2015: Mohammed Bensellam 
• 2014: Leonie Heilbronn
• 2013: Ann Simpson (The 2013 ADS-Skip Martin DART Award was jointly funded by ADS and Skip Martin’s Estate)
• 2012: Phillip Kantharidis (The 2012 ADS-Skip Martin DART Award was jointly funded by ADS and Skip Martin’s Estate)
• 2011: Susan McLennan 
• 2010: Matthew Watt

The Australian Diabetes Society provides the ADS Presidents Award that is awarded annually to a junior member who presents the best oral clinical presentation at the ADS Annual Scientific Meeting. The inaugural ADS Presidents Award was presented in 2011.

• 2024: Beryl Lin
• 2023: Lisa Raven
• 2022: Jennifer Snaith
• 2021: Mahesh Umapathysivam
• 2020: Rahul Barmanray
• 2019: Jocelyn Drinkwater
• 2018: Karen Rothacker
• 2017: Mervyn Kyi
• 2016: Dilshani Jayawadene & Timothy Roberts
• 2015: Laurence Trahair & Katherine Tonks
• 2014: Sybil McAuley & Kathryn Williams
• 2013: Mark Plummer
• 2012: Constance Yap
• 2011: Raymond Davey

The Australian Diabetes Society provides the ADS Pincus Taft Young Investigator Awards that is awarded annually to a junior member who presents the best oral presentation at the ADS Annual Scientific Meeting. The following have been awarded since the year 2000 however the award has been presented for many years prior to this.

• 2024: Nicholas Norris
• 2023: Josephine Yu
• 2022: Kylie Deng & Dillon Jevon
• 2021: Khalia Primer
• 2020: Natassia Rodrigo
• 2019: Belinda Yau
• 2018: Anh Tao
• 2017: Hanah Rodriguez
• 2016: Brenna Osborne
• 2015: Sarah Glastras & Sherman Leung
• 2014: Lewin Small & Chryssovalantou Xirouchaki
• 2013: Greg Kowalski
• 2012: Stephen Gray
• 2011: Jeng-Yie Chan
• 2010: David Pedersen
• 2009: Mark McKenzie
• 2008: Brian Drew, Nicole Wong
• 2007: Jason Chung
• 2006: Anna Calkin
• 2005: Kathryn Aston-Mourney
• 2004: Georgia Frangioudakis, Kylie McLauchlan
• 2003: Spiros Fourlanos
• 2002: Fiona Lee
• 2001: Seng Khee Gan
• 2000: Matthew Oldfield

This award is provided by the Australian Diabetes Society and is awarded to an ADS member/s for the best discovery science poster in diabetes research given at the ADS Annual Scientific Meeting.

• 2024: Thomas King
• 2023: Kylie Deng
• 2022: Mark Germanos
• 2021: Matthew Waters & Dr Dragana Dragoljevic
• 2020: Belinda Yau
• 2019: Jay Jha & Jason Tong 
• 2018: Tenzin Dagpo
• 2017: Rodrigo Carlessi
• 2016: Ryan Farr & Marin Healy
• 2015: Lewin Small
• 2014: Wan Jun Gan
• 2013: Vanessa Hayes, Gemma Pearson
• 2012: Greg Kowalski, Maria Stathopoulos
• 2011: Jiun Low, Rebecca Stokes
• 2010: Kim Cheng, Lindsay Wu
• 2009: Fay Lin Khong, Sarah Turpin
• 2008: Michelle Fryirs, Lisa Wing-Yee Lo
• 2007: Timo Kanzleiter
• 2006: David Liuwantara, Amanda Preston

This award is provided by the Australian Diabetes Society and is awarded to an ADS member/s for the best diabetes clinical research poster given at the ADS Annual Scientific Meeting.

• 2024: Ray Wang
• 2023: Rodney Kwok
• 2022: Yuhan Goh
• 2021: Matilda Longfield & Mr Callum Baker
• 2020: Melissa Lee
• 2019: Joel Lasschuit
• 2018: Matthew Hare
• 2017: Emily Meyer
• 2016: Angela Lee & Jas-mine Seah
• 2015: Sally Abell & Tongzhi Wu
• 2014: Victoria Rudland
• 2013: Melanie Burkhardt, Kathryn Williams
• 2012: Belinda Brooks, Rosie Worsley
• 2011: Belinda Brooks, Raymond Davey
• 2010: Gerard Chew, Christopher Yates
• 2009: Shilpa Verma, Anna Lih
• 2008: Hung Nguyen, Jencia Wong
• 2007: Spiros Fourlanos
• 2006: Lionel Chan, Christine Rodda

The Best ADS Clinical Presentation Award in memory of Dr Paul Lee is to the value of A$1,250. The finalists will be categorised into Clinical Research and the award will be given to the best oral presentation by an ADS member at the ADS/ADEA Australasian Diabetes Congress.

• 2024: Shivani Patel
• 2023: Cong Xie
• 2022: Tomasz Block & Yoon Ji Jina Rhou
• 2021: Matthew Hare

The ADS Jeff Flack Diabetes Data Award is for an Australian researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to Diabetes Data Collection in Australia. This award is supported by the Australian Daibetes Society and commenced in 2015.

• 2024: Graham Ogle
• 2023: John Wentworth
• 2022: David Simmons
• 2021: Elizabeth Barr
• 2020: Peter Colman
• 2019: Maria Craig
• 2018: Timothy Jones
• 2017: Dianna Magliano
• 2016: Wendy Davis
• 2015: Jonathan Shaw

The ADS Lifetime Achievement recognises an individual who has made significant, fundamental contributions to diabetes (whether in research, clinical practice, leadership, mentorship or other); the lasting impact of these contributions to the sector; and the demonstration of a lifetime commitment to diabetes. This award commenced in 2017.

• 2024: Alison Nankervis
• 2023: David Chipps, Michael D’Emden, David James, David McIntyre
• 2022: James Best AO, Mark Cooper AO, Gregory Cooney, Kim Donaghue
• 2021: Timothy Davis, Joseph Proietto AM, Dennis Yue OAM
• 2020: Lesley Campbell, Robert Moses AO
• 2019: John R Turtle AO
• 2018: Frank Alford, Len Harrison, George Jerums AD, Paul Zimmet AO
• 2017: Donald Chisholm

The Quality in Diabetes Care (QIDC) Meeting provide a forum for trainees to learn by presenting and discussing interesting cases in diabetes care by endocrinology advanced trainees, fellows and other speciality advanced trainees wanting to enter the program. At the Australasian Diabetes Congress, the best finalist presentation will be able to share their presentation at the QIDC session and the overall national winner will be selected. 

• 2024: Áine Peoples
• 2023: Andrew Peel
• 2022: James Nolan
• 2021: Katie Wyld
• 2020: Kate Rassie
• 2019: Shan Balachandran
• 2018: Rahul Barmanray
• 2017: Shamil Cooray
• 2016: Barb Paldus

These grants have been made possible through the generosity of AstraZeneca who have strongly supported diabetes research over many years.

• 2023: Pieter Jansen, Richard MacIsaac
• 2022: Chinmay Marathe, Mahesh Umapathysivam
• 2022: Jerry Greenfield, Lisa Raven (ADS Diabetes Research Grant)
• 2021: Sarah Glastras, Karin Jandeleit-Dahm  

These grants have been made possible by the generosity of Servier Laboratories Australia which has strongly supported the National Diabetes Strategies for many years.

• 2020: Matthew Snelson
• 2019: Not awarded
• 2018: Not awarded
• 2017: Jane Holmes-Walker, Anthony Russell
• 2016: Barbora de Courten
• 2015: Stephen Colagiuri, Richard MacIsaac
• 2011: Louise Burrell, Stephen Colagiuri, Timothy Davis
• 2010: Wah Cheung, Yoon Hi Cho, Helen Edwards, John Furler, Alicia Jenkins, Sophia Zoungas
• 2009: Melanie Burkhardt, Fergus Cameron, Jeff Flack, John Furler
• 2008: N Wah Cheung, Meaghan L Douglas, Trisha Dunning, William Hague, Sheila Patel, Sophia Zoungas

The ADS-MSD Educational Travel Grant for Medical PhD Scholars is an award that recognises excellence in the field of medical research. This offer is intended as an educational grant to provide sponsorship of a PhD student to attend the ADA/EASD conference.

• 2018: Mervyn Kyi, Angela Lee, Barbora Paldus
• 2017: Estifanos Baye, Sergio Martinez-Huenchullan
• 2016: Timothy Middelton, Jessie Yang (Attended 2016 ADA)
• 2015: Alex Barwick (Attended 2015 EASD)
• 2015: Clement Lo, Angela Shiao Ting Lee, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Victoria Rudland (Attended 2015 ADA)
• 2014: Sybil McAuley (Attended 2014 EASD)
• 2014: Mana Liao (Attended 2014 ADA)
• 2013: Mark Plummer (Attended 2013 EASD)

This is a new grant scheme and has been made possible by the generosity of Sanofi Diabetes Australia. The grants will be for clinical projects that provide improved health outcomes to Australians suffering from diabetes and/or their ability to fill gaps in scientific knowledge.

• 2014: N Wah Cheung, Usman Malabu, Sophia Zoungas
• 2013: Spiros Fourlanos, Paul Wraight
• 2012: Laima Brazionis, Sybil McAuley