Prof. Antony W Burgess is an Australian biochemist and a cancer researcher. He was the Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne, Professor of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, and ALaboratory Head at WEHI. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 1993, and in 1998, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) “for outstanding services to science and medicine, especially in the field of cancer research”. His skills and expertise include growth factors, cell signaling, signal transduction, cell proliferation, cancer biology, apoptosis, and cancer cell biology.