Dr Jessie Sutherland a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science at the University of Newcastle. Her research vision is to eliminate preventable infertility on a global scale. She is striving towards this through determining the underlying causes of female infertility, alongside improving fertility knowledge in young people.

Dr Sutherland has strategically developed a program that spans both NHMRC and ARC national funding opportunities as demonstrated by rare early career success across both schemes.

She is the recent recipient of a highly competitive (19.7% success rate) ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award national fellowship (2022), in recognition of her early career research excellence in discovery and applied science.

She previously held a prestigious NHMRC Peter Doherty Australian Biomedical Fellowship, one of only 40 awarded annually to the highest potential early career medical researchers in Australia.

Jessie has secured over $1.8 million as a lead investigator in competitive external funding from government, industry and philanthropy. She is the first researcher at the University of Newcastle to establish a formalised partnership project with Family Planning Australia, greatly expanding the potential of her fertility education program.

In her early career, she has published 44 original research articles and two book chapters (50% as lead/senior), with >1300 citations. Dr Sutherland’s success in articulating her research findings at eminent field-leading conferences has accelerated her national and international standing. Most notably, she was awarded the Society for Reproductive Biology’s prestigious New Investigator Award.