University of Melbourne, Australia David Jackson has been an active researcher for the last 35 years and in this time has trained more than 50 graduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral scholars. He has published approximately 200 original research papers, invited reviews and book chapters describing immune mechanisms and has been invited to numerous national and international meetings. He is a Principal Research Fellow with the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia. In 2009 with five other investigators, including Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty, he was awarded a 5 year program grant from the NH&MRC. His research efforts are focused on the design, assembly and evaluation of new and innovative vaccines. The focus is especially on the use of synthetic peptides and lipopeptides as vaccines and vaccine delivery vehicles. He was one of the founders of the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology and is senior inventor of a number of patents.