Prof. Ronald J. Quinn is a Member of the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (2003–present). He obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales (1970), followed by postdoctoral work at Arizona State University, the University of Hawaii, and the Australian National University. He joined the Roche Research Institute of Marine Pharmacology in Sydney (1974). The period with Roche included one year in Basel (1981). He joined Griffith University (1982) and was appointed Professor (1994). He was elected Fellow of the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (2003) and received the RACI Adrien Albert Award (2004). He was appointed Director of the Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies (2003).