Sally L. Dunwoodie

Sally Lewers Dunwoodie AO is an Australian scientist, specialising in genetic birth defects.

Dunwoodie became an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2024 "For distinguished service to medical research as an embryologist and geneticist, particularly in the field of fetal and neonatal heart disease".

Early life and education Dunwoodie attended Queenwood School for Girls in Sydney, Australia, graduating in 1981. She studied a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the University of Sydney. She researched the genetics of muscle development and graduated with a PhD from the Children's Medical Research Institute. In 2022, Dunwoodie became the Deputy Director of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, 2019 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Scientific Research (2018) NHMRC Top 10 Research Projects Award, 2014 J. O. Szot, C. Campagnolo, Y. Cao, K. R. Iyer, H. Cuny, T. Drysdale, J. A. Flores-Daboub, W. Bi, L. Westerfield, P. Liu, T. Ngong Leung, K. W. Choy, G. Chapman, R. Xiao, V. M. Siu, S. L. Dunwoodie (2020), "Bi-allelic Mutations in NADSYN1 Cause Multiple Organ Defects and Expand the Genotypic Spectrum of Congenital NAD Deficiency Disorders", American Journal of Human Genetics, 106(1), pp. 129–136. S. L. Dunwoodie, D. Henrique, S. M. Harrison, R. S. P. Beddington (1997), "Mouse Dll3: a novel divergent Delta gene which may complement the function of other Delta homologues during early pattern formation in the mouse embryo", Development, 124(16), pp. 3065–3076. G. Chapman, D. B. Sparrow, E. Kremmer, S. L. Dunwoodie (2011), "Notch inhibition by the ligand Delta-Like 3 defines the mechanism of abnormal vertebral segmentation in spondylocostal dysostosis", Human Molecular Genetics, 20(5), pp. 905–916.