Dr. Ivy Chiang is a post-doctoral research scientist at Westmead Insitute for Medical Research under Prof. Eddy Kizana (Cardiac Gene Therapy Group, Centre for Heart Research) and an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Sydney. She completed her PhD at Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, followed by postdoctoral training at the Centenary Institute. Her current work focuses on identifying and characterising novel cardiotropic recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAVs), capable of effectively delivering therapeutic genes to the adult human heart. She develops advanced strategies, including innovative cardiac culture techniques and next-generation human cardiac-specific vectors, to support clinical translation.

Kim Mellor completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2011, and established the Cellular and Molecular Cardiology Laboratory at the University of Auckland. Her discovery bioscience delves into the pathophysiology of heart failure and diabetic cardiomyopathy, interrogating disease targets at tissue, cellular and subcellular levels.

Dr Nicholas Lam is Lab Head of the Cardiac Biology and Regeneration Group at the Heart Research Institute. He earned his BBiomedSc from the University of Melbourne, followed by a BSc(Hons) and PhD from Monash University, conducted at the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute and Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. He completed postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center rising to the rank of Instructor, and became an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona before returning to Australia. An expert in cardiac regeneration and cardiomyocyte proliferation, Dr Lam has published in Circulation, Nature Metabolism, and Nature Cardiovascular Research as first/corresponding author. He is supported by a Robert Edward Gough Fellowship, NSW Health Cardiovascular Elite Postdoctoral Researcher Grant and Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant.