Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia
Professor Simon Gandevia (FAA FAHMS FRACP FTPS DSc MD PhD) is a founder of Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney and an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow/Investigator. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales and subsequently conducted research in clinical neurophysiology at the Prince Henry Hospital.
In 1992, he established with colleagues the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, now Neuroscience Research Australia. His research on volunteers and patients focuses on areas such as: proprioceptive mechanisms, neural control of breathing, motor control and muscle fatigue, the passive behaviour of muscles, and spinal cord physiology. Many studies involve patients with a range of disorders or diseases. He is the only person to have published more than a hundred papers in the Journal of Physiology.
He is committed to improving research quality having published a Quality Output Checklist and Content Assessment (QuOCCA) and set up Retractions Australia (https://retractions.au/).
He has had longstanding editorial roles with the Journal of Physiology and Journal of Applied Physiology. He headed a new NHMRC program in ‘Motor Impairment’ and started a new initiative in spinal cord injury. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1998 and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2016.