Renowned surgeon and researcher, Professor Klaus-Martin Schulte MD FRCS FRACS, has recently been appointed Professor and Chair of Transdisciplinary Health Research at the Australian National University to push the frontiers of knowledge in personalised and precision health. This new paradigm requires innovative diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to identify and target the unique genetic and other types of variations that we all have. Professor Schulte is providing leadership in harnessing deep expertise and synergies across medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, computation and the social sciences. 

Professor Schulte is ideally suited to the role. He has deep knowledge in fundamental sciences and clinical medicine gained through training and many years of surgical practice in France, Germany and the UK, and for the past decade he has been head of the Department of Surgery at the ANU Medical School and Canberra Health Services. His substantial research portfolio, supported by over $23 million of current research funding, spans pharmacogenomics, digital models, novel therapeutics, molecular and cancer research, and space medicine. His new position is based in the John Curtin School of Medical Research, and Professor Schulte continues his long-standing surgical practice at King’s College Hospital London on a part-time basis.