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Professor James Whisstock FAHMS is Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University and a member of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute. He completed his PhD in bioinformatics and structural biology at the University of Cambridge before moving to Australia in 1997 to establish his research group at Monash University. In January 2022 he was appointed Deputy Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. His prior leadership roles include Scientific Head of EMBL Australia from 2017 to 2024 and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging from 2014 to 2021. He has held an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship, an ARC Federation Fellowship and an Honorary NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship.