At the recent American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) annual scientific meeting in Albuquerque, Prof Frank Dunshea was awarded the Federation of American Animal Science Societies (FASS) American Feed Industries Association (AFIA) New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award for 2023.

Frank is the first person from outside North America to be awarded this prestigious award. A longstanding member of the British Society of Animal Science, Frank is a Professor of Growth and Development at the University of Leeds and a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Chair of Agriculture at The University of Melbourne. He has a BAgSci and PhD from La Trobe University and post-doctoral training at Cornell University and worked as a government scientist before joining the university sector.

Frank is an outstanding scientist, who has published over 1,000 journal, conference, book, and technical articles. His recent primary research focus has been on the effect of climate change on livestock production and identifying nutritional interventions to mitigate heat stress.

Overall, his nutritional research has led to exciting findings, many of which have been adopted by the livestock industries. Frank has received many awards for his research in animal science, including the ASAS Awards for Growth and Development (2009), Non-Ruminant Nutrition (2013), Meat Science (2017) and Ruminant Nutrition (2022), as well as the Asian-Australasian Association for Animal Production Woogene award for Animal Biotechnology (2022).

Frank is a Fellow of the Nutrition Society of Australia, the Australasian Pig Science Association, and the Australian Association of Animal Sciences. In late 2022, he was made a Fellow of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, only the second animal nutritionist to receive this honour”.