Professor Edwina Cornish

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Monash University

Edwina Cornish is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Monash, a position she took up on 16 February, 2004.

Professor Cornish received a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Biochemistry and a PhD in Microbiology from The University of Melbourne.  She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and has been awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society in Biotechnology and University Administration.

Edwina played a key role in building one of Australia’s first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited.  Under her leadership the company developed and successfully commercialised the world’s first genetically modified flowers.  She is currently a member of the Board of the Australian Research Council.  She has also served on the Prime Minister’s Science and Engineering Council and the Victorian Government Science and Engineering Technology Taskforce.