Levon Khachigian heads the Vascular Biology and Translational Research Laboratory in the School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW Faculty of Medicine & Health. He received his Ph.D. from UNSW in 1993 and, after postdoctoral training in vascular pathobiology at Harvard Medical School, returned to the UNSW Centre for Vascular Research (CVR) in 1996, where he established an independent research group. He was appointed Professor in 2004 and Director of CVR in 2009. His research fields include cardiovascular and inflammatory disease, oncology, tumour growth and metastasis, molecular and cellular mechanisms, signaling and transcription, and transcriptional regulation. He was selected as a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance in 2021.