| Border: | parliamentary |
| Minister: | not_prime |
| Post: | Minister for Medical Research |
| Insignia: | Coat of Arms of New South Wales.svg |
| Incumbent: | David Harris |
| Incumbentsince: | 5 April 2023 |
| Style: | The Honourable |
| Nominator: | Premier of New South Wales |
| Appointer: | Governor of New South Wales |
| Formation: | 2 April 2003 |
The Minister for Medical Research is a minister in the New South Wales Government and has responsibilities which included medical research in New South Wales, Australia.
The New South Wales government was involved in medical research since 1871 with the establishment of the position of Analytical Chemist.[1] The NSW Medical Research Council was established on 18 September 1946 with objectives that included (1) carrying out a survey of medical research being conducted; (2) advising the government as to the expenditure of money upon medical research and the merits of reputed cures or methods of treatment. The Council however ceased to operate within a year of its establishment.[2]
Medical Research was not represented at a portfolio level until 2003 with the creation of the portfolio of Science and Medical Research. The issues within the portfolio included gene technology; prohibition of human cloning and regulation of research on human embryos; access to Australia’s genetic and biochemical resources; bioethics; and spinal cord injury.[3] The portfolio was combined with the Health portfolio in 2019 in the second Berejiklian ministry, named Health and Medical Research.[4] The portfolio returned to Health in the second Perrottet ministry.
| Title | Minister | Party | Ministry | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister for Science and Medical Research | Carr (4) Iemma (1) | align=center | 2 April 2003 | align=center | 2 April 2007 | ||||||||
| Iemma (2) | align=center | 2 April 2007 | align=center | 5 September 2008 | |||||||||
| Rees | align=center | 8 September 2008 | align=center | 4 November 2008 | align=right | ||||||||
| Rees Keneally | align=center | 4 November 2008 | align=center | 28 March 2011 | align=right | ||||||||
| Minister for Medical Research | O'Farrell Baird (1) | align=center | 3 April 2011 | align=center | 2 April 2015 | align=right | |||||||
| Baird (2) | align=center | 2 April 2015 | align=center | 30 January 2017 | align=right | ||||||||
| Berejiklian (1) | align=center | 30 January 2017 | align=center | 23 March 2019 | |||||||||
| Minister for Health and Medical Research | Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1) | align=center | 2 April 2019 | align=center | 21 December 2021 | ||||||||
| Minister for Medical Research | David Harris | width=8% | Minns | align=center | 5 April 2023 | align=center | incumbent | align=right | |||||