• Prof Karen Burg, Rhodes Engineering Research Centre, Clemson University, United States

Prof Karen J.L. Burg, Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioengineering and Interim Vice Provost for Research & Innovation at Clemson University (Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA). A graduate of North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) and Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina, USA), Dr. Burg completed a tissue engineering postdoctoral fellowship, at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina before joining the faculty at Clemson University. Dr. Burg is the Executive Editor of Biomaterials Forum and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Histotechnology. Honors to Dr. Burg include a U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the inaugural AO Foundation Research Prize, recognition as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s TR100 Young Innovator, an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow, an American Council on Education Fellow, and a United States Department of Defense Era of Hope Scholar.

• Vicky Schiavon, Anatomical Pathology, The Alfred Hospital

Vicky Schiavon is the senior scientist in immunohistochemistry at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. She majored in Histology at RMIT (Medical Laboratory Science). Previous employers include Gribbles Pathology and has also been involved with the Histology department at Monash University in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.