Dr Don Newgreen heads the Embryology Laboratory at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
He obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne (Zoology) and has held post-doctoral, group leadership and faculty positions at the Institute d'Embryologie et Biologie Moleculaire (France), the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany), Department of Cell and Structural Biology, Manchester University (UK), and at Department of Paediatrics, Westmead Hospital (Sydney).