Professor Julie Campbell is the inaugural Director of The Wesley Research Institute, a Professorial Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology (UQ), and President of the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI). Her commitment to biomedical research and science education has been recognised with her award of an Office of the Order of Australia in 2006 and her election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2000.