NSW Gala Dinner

Please join the ASMR Hunter Committee at the NSW Gala Dinner in Sydney for a convivial evening celebrating the achievements of NSW’s health and medical researchers at the 2025 ASMR Medical Research Week® Gala Dinner. This year, the Gala Dinner will be held in the Strangers’ Room at NSW Parliament House, providing a rare opportunity for our members and supporters to experience fine dining at this iconic venue. 

Venue: The Strangers’ Room, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Time: 6.00 – 10:30pm
Cost: $180 per ticket or $1,620 for a table of 10 – table bookings can be made online using the link below or by invoice using the table order form.

The Gala Dinner is a formal dinner uniting esteemed researchers, students, industry professionals, politicians and our ASMR Medallist. Prize recipients at the NSW and Hunter scientific meeting will also be recognised at the Gala Dinner.

As well as celebrating the best and brightest researchers in our state, the dinner will feature the 2025 ASMR Medallist, Dr Daniel Timms. Dr Timms is an innovative biomedical engineer whose journey began in Brisbane, where he spent countless hours alongside his plumber father, tinkering with water pumps and constructing imaginative devices. A personal tragedy ignited Dr Timms’ unwavering commitment to revolutionise cardiovascular care.

A graduate of the Queensland University of Technology, Dr Timms’ research journey took him from Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital to prestigious institutions worldwide. Collaborating with Germany’s Helmholtz Institute – one of Europe’s foremost cardiovascular engineering research centres – and the Texas Heart Institute, he contributed to groundbreaking work in the TAH design and development. In 2023, he was nominated for Queensland’s “Australian of the Year” award.

Dr Timms continues to collaborate with global experts to develop cutting-edge cardiovascular medical devices, and his unwavering dedication underscores his pivotal role in advancing cardiac care and saving lives.