Sulev Kõks, MD, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of the Medical Genomics Laboratory at Murdoch University, Australia. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science and an Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool. He received his MD and PhD in Molecular Biomedicine from the University of Tartu. His research focuses on genomic medicine, precision therapeutics, Parkinson’s disease, neurodegenerative disorders, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and the genomics of chronic and age-related diseases. Professor Kõks has authored approximately 497 scientific publications and is a co-inventor of six patents. He has secured more than €27 million in research funding and has led major international projects in genomics and personalised medicine. He serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Biology and Medicine and holds editorial roles in several international journals.