David Le Couteur is a geriatrician and clinical pharmacologist who was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (2016), awarded the Rand Medal, Australasian Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (2015) and Abrams award, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2013) for his contributions to geriatric pharmacology, ageing research and drug regulatory affairs. He has over 300 publications and chapters related to geriatric pharmacology and ageing biology. He is Director of the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing (University of Sydney) and is an advocate for ageing research and improved use of medications in older people.

Professor Gordon Parker AO has received international recognition for his pioneering work in psychopathology, in particular research models to differentiate principal mood disorders (melancholia and bipolar II disorder) with diagnostic precision so that their causes and optimal treatments can be pursued. He has also carried out seminal work on parenting style and other psychosocial factors affecting adult psychopathology.

Parker established the Black Dog Institute, thereby enabling the translation of his group’s research, and transforming the landscape of depression awareness and treatment access in the country. He is a leading educator, mentor, spokesperson and polemicist of Psychiatry in the country.

Jacob George is the Robert W. Storr Professor of Hepatic Medicine, University of Sydney and Director of the Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Westmead Hospital. His research is focussed on liver disease, with specific themes in liver cancer, viral hepatitis, host genetics and liver disease, liver fibrosis, fatty liver disease and pharmacogenomics. His contribution is noteworthy for its breadth, novelty and extent, including in basic, clinical and translational research with over 325 peer reviewed publications and 22,500 citations.

Professor Peter Gibson is a world leading authority in asthma, a respiratory physician (John Hunter Hospital), an active clinical researcher, a Director of the University of Newcastle’s Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs, and a leader of the Hunter Medical Research Institute’s Viruses, Infections/Immunity, Vaccines and Asthma program. He successfully combines his skills as a scientist, clinician and mentor to lead an internationally renowned translational research centre that has made major advances in the health care of patients with chronic respiratory disease. His work combines innovation with clinical relevance, and has improved the knowledge of clinicians and scientists globally