Shaun Jackson is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, faculty member at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, San Diego (California, USA), and Honorary Visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2015, he was appointed as the inaugural Director of Cardiovascular Research, at the Heart Research Institute & Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. He has a clinical appointment in the Dept. Cardiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He has established several Australian biotechnology companies focussing on the clinical development of novel antithrombotic therapeutics. Shaun has received numerous international awards including the Marion Barnhart Prize (2009) and the Career Investigator Award and Medal (2011) from the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.