Professor Jenny Gunton heads the Centre for Diabetes, Obesity and Endocrinology Research (CDOER) and Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR). She is Chair of Medicine at Westmead Hospital and a clinical endocrinologist / diabetologist.

Anand is a Professor and Chair of Physiology at the Western Sydney University School of Medicine. He is also the Convenor of the MD Program at WSU School of Medicine where he heads the Diabetes and Islet Biology Group. He is affiliated with the Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University and the Ingham Institute in Liverpool and is also a Visiting Professor with the Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy, Roskilde University Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an executive member of SPHERE DOM CAG and works closely with clinician-researchers and academics within the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Translational Research Unit.

Professor Hindrik Mulder is a certified medical doctor in Sweden. His research career has been exclusively academic and since 2004 has managed an outpatient clinic at the Department of Endocrinology at Skåne University Hospital. Since 2021, Professor Mulder has served as editor-in-chief of Diabetologia, which is the official journal of the European Association of the Study of Diabetes.

Jacqui Schiesser is a senior research officer in the Immune Development group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She completed her PhD in 2013 studying human stem cell differentiation and pancreatic development. Following this, she undertook postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of James Wells at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her current research focuses on the utilization of stem cell models of type 1 diabetes and identification of cell-surface markers for the quantitative analysis of human islet cellular composition.