Josephine Forbes (born 20 August 1970) is an Australian scientist specialising in the study of glycation and diabetes. She has been studying diabetes since 1999 and has worked at Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne Australia. Since 2012 she has led the Glycation and Diabetes team at Mater Research which is a world-class medical research institute based at South Brisbane, and part of the Mater Group. Josephine is program leader for Mater's Chronic Disease Biology and Care theme, building greater understanding of the biological basis of a broad range of chronic diseases, and developing preventative strategies and innovative treatments to improve patient outcomes. Josephine and her team focus on how advanced glycation contributes to the pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications such as kidney disease. Biography Professor Forbes currently leads a team of post-doctoral researchers and supervises numerous students, in addition to being a professor of medicine at the University of Queensland and a principal research fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. Education Forbes was awarded her PhD in Nephrology in 1999 from the University of Melbourne, for research carried out at the Royal Children's Hospital. She is currently an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and has held research grants from the NHMRC of Australia, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and the National Institutes of Health (USA). Awards Forbes has received many awards in recognition of her research: 2002: Young Researcher Award, International Diabetes Federation 2006: Millennium Award for T1 Diabetes, Diabetes Australia Research Trust (DART) 2008: Young Tall Poppy Award, Australia Institute of Policy and Science 2010: The Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research 2010: NHMRC Achievement Award for highest ranked Career Development Award 2014: Women in Technology Life Science Award 2016: World Science Festival - Women in STEM Prize; Judges Choice, http://www.chiefscientist.qld.gov.au/science-comms/programs-events/partner-up-queensland/2016-events 2017: TJ Neale Award for Outstanding Contribution to Nephrological Science, Australian And New Zealand Society of Nephrology https://www.nephrology.edu.au/awardsfellowshipsandgrants/award-recipients.asp 2017: Sr Regis Mary Dunne Medal for Outstanding Research Contribution to Mater Group. https://www.materresearch.org.au/News-and-events/Research-News/October-2017/Mater-Research-2017-Awards-for-Research-Excellence Research Forbes' research focuses on the process of advanced glycation and its contribution to diabetes and its complications, in particular kidney disease. Her recent work includes research into how advanced glycation of food by modern processing techniques and storage may be contributing to our diabetes epidemic. Her research aims to find medicines which reduce the accumulation