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Professor Loane Skene, Professor in the Melbourne Law School and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has been appointed to the Australian Health Ethics Committee. Professor Skene has served on numerous Commonwealth and state advisory committees, especially concerning genetics and the law.

Dr Kylie Cripps has been appointed to the NHMRC Prevention and Community Health Committee. Dr Cripps is an Indigenous research fellow with the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit in the University’s School of Population Health. Her research interests include issues relating to Indigenous family violence, sexual assault and child abuse including policy development and program/service delivery.

Professor Andrew Sinclair and Professor Ingrid Winship have both been appointed to the Human Genetics Advisory Committee. Professor Sinclair is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and a Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Department of Paediatrics. He is also Director of the Early Development and Disease division at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne.

Professor Winship is Professor of Adult Clinical Genetics at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is also the Executive Director of Research at Melbourne Health. She is a clinical geneticist with an interest in adult onset genetic disorders, especially the inherited predisposition to cancer. As a dermatologist, her area of special expertise in is inherited disorders of the skin.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is Australia’s peak body for supporting health and medical research; for developing health advice for the Australian community, health professionals and governments; and for providing advice on ethical behaviour in health care and in the conduct of health and medical research.