• Prof Donald Metcalf, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Professor Donald Metcalf is a medical graduate of Sydney University and has been Carden Fellow in Cancer Research at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute since 1954 with periods worked in Boston, Buffalo, Lausanne, Rijswijk and Cambridge. He is the author of 600+ scientific papers and 9 books on his research on blood cell growth factors and leukaemia development. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Royal Society and a foreign member of the US Academy of Sciences and has won numerous international awards for his research.

• Piero Nelva, Anatomical Pathology Southern Health, Monash Medical Centre

Piero Nelva is employed at Monash Medical Centre where he is the Senior Scientist in Immunohistochemisrty a position he has held for 15 years. Piero is actively involved with both the AIMS and the Histology Group of Victoria, and has given regular presentations for both groups. His current project in the workplace is the continuing automation of immunohistochermistry and out of work he continues to grow vegetables and raise chickens