Misbah Aziz is a Ph.D. student in the second year of her degree at the department of diabetes, Monash University. Melbourne. Her research interest is about the epigenetics basis of diabetic-associated cardiovascular disease.

Dr Litwak has been involved in the study of leptin resistance and obesity since 2011, first at Monash University and since 2014 at St Vincent's Institute for Medical Research. She is interested in the molecular mechanisms contributing to Insulin Resistance and beta cell failure in models of obesity and T2D.

Dr. Jha is a previous JDRF/NHMRC funded early-mid career research fellow. The leadership and significance of his research impact is reflected by translation of his preclinical work in DKD to clinical trials as well as by his highly cited publications (>2400 cites) in the leading journals of diabetes and nephrology.

Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan is a previous Heart Foundation postdoctoral fellow and an early-mid career Research Fellow at the Department of Diabetes, Monash University. Research interests includes cardiovascular complicating of diabetes.

Dr Loh is the head of the Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Laboratory at St Vincent's Institute. He was awarded an ADS Skip Martin ECR Fellowship in 2018. His long-term research interests involve the development of a comprehensive understanding of key regulatory pathways in beta-cell function, glucose and energy metabolism.

Jantina Manning is a mid-career research fellow in the Centre for Cancer Biology, Adelaide, Australia. She leads a research project focused on how the regulation of proteins by ubiquitination (particularly by the ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-2) protects against chronic kidney disease and diabetic nephropathy.

Stewart is a postdoctoral researcher in David James' lab at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre. After completing a PhD in cell signalling and glucose transport in New Zealand, Stewart moved to Sydney in 2021. Currently, Stewart studies insulin resistance via systems biology and diversity outbred mice.

Dr. Mitchell Sullivan studies glycogen's role in metabolic diseases like diabetes. He explores glycogen structure and function, revealing the fragility of diabetic liver glycogen. He investigates glycogen's involvement in nervous system disorders, such as Lafora Disease, and currently examines the connection between diabetes, mitochondrial dysfunction and kidney disease.