Media & Awards
American Neurological Association award
In December 2025, Prof Scheffer was conferred an honorary doctorate of laws from Monash University.
Other recent awards include:
Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Outstanding Female Researcher 2025
Seino Lecture, the Plenary lecture of the Asian Oceanian Epilepsy Congress, New Delhi, February 2025
Peter Bladin Award and Lecture, Epilepsy Society of Australia 2024
Caroline Cunningham Lecture in Epilepsy, University of Toronto, Canada, 2022
Einstein Fellowship, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, 2022-25
Professor Scheffer was the winner of the F.E. Bennett Memorial Lectureship by the American Neurological Association (ANA) at the 2021 Awards for Outstanding Accomplishments in Academic Neurology and Neuroscience. Read more at the University of Melbourne website.
Professor Scheffer was awarded an NHMRC Synergy Grant for $5 million: "Professor Ingrid Scheffer will lead a team bringing computational expertise to integrate multiple biological measurements from patients with severe forms of epilepsy, revealing underlying disease dynamics and targeting new treatment approaches"
Other recent awards include:
Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Outstanding Female Researcher 2025
Seino Lecture, the Plenary lecture of the Asian Oceanian Epilepsy Congress, New Delhi, February 2025
Peter Bladin Award and Lecture, Epilepsy Society of Australia 2024
Caroline Cunningham Lecture in Epilepsy, University of Toronto, Canada, 2022
Einstein Fellowship, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, 2022-25
Professor Scheffer was the winner of the F.E. Bennett Memorial Lectureship by the American Neurological Association (ANA) at the 2021 Awards for Outstanding Accomplishments in Academic Neurology and Neuroscience. Read more at the University of Melbourne website.
Professor Scheffer was awarded an NHMRC Synergy Grant for $5 million: "Professor Ingrid Scheffer will lead a team bringing computational expertise to integrate multiple biological measurements from patients with severe forms of epilepsy, revealing underlying disease dynamics and targeting new treatment approaches"
Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
Prime Minister's Prize for Science
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards 2012
Professor Scheffer was elected an Officer of the Order of Australia by the Governor in 2014.
Professor Scheffer wins the GlaxoSmithKline Award for Research Excellence
Professor Scheffer was awarded the 2013 GlaxoSmithKline Award for Research Excellence for 'helping to transform the diagnosis of epilepsy' at the 2013 Research Australia Awards Night, at the Park Hyatt Melbourne in November. In her acceptance speech, Prof Scheffer paid tribute to her colleagues and mentors, her research team at the University of Melbourne and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and her ever-willing patients. She also emphasised the importance of growing more clinician-scientists and more female scientists to the upper echelons of science.
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The sound of breaking glass (article, The Age)
Believe - Campaign for The University of Melbourne |
Professor Scheffer featured on 7.30 ReportOn December 30th, 2013, the ABC's 7.30 Report aired an episode entitled 'Gene Secrets to Help Explain Epilepsy', featuring an extensive interview with Prof Scheffer and interviews with her colleagues, patients and patients' parents. Watch the episode here.
Ladies of the Lab (article, Sydney Morning Herald)
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Brain Matters: Ingrid Scheffer in The Zone
(article and video interview, The Age) Our Marvellous Medical Women (article, Sunday Herald Sun) 
Prof Scheffer is awarded the University of Melbourne Woodward Medal for Science and Technology, 2012.
Prof Scheffer awarded the 2013 Emil Becker Prize in Innsbruck, Austria.
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Top 100 Most Influential Melbournians 2012 (The Age Melbourne Magazine, December 2012)
Epilepsy research brings award to Australian expert (article, The Age) Life Matters: Genes and Epilepsy (podcast, Radio National) Epileptic Seizures - Turmoil Hidden From View (Ockham's Razor, Radio National) 
Prof Scheffer receives the Woodward Medal with Ms Elizabeth Alexander AM, Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and Prof James Angus, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
Professor Scheffer delivered the Tracy Maund Oration in 2012, for the Royal Women's Hospital Medical Society.
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