Dr Danielle J Borg is the program coordinator of the latest longitudinal birth cohort in the state of Queensland in Australia, the Queensland Family Cohort. In 2012, she completed her PhD in Dresden, Germany in islet biology and transplantation under Professor Ezio Bonifacio. She continued her post-doctoral training under Professor Josephine Forbes and Professor Michael McGuckin in Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes therapeutics. Dr Borg currently coordinates over 150 researchers and stakeholders involved in the Queensland Family Cohort in the Mother and Baby research theme at the Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland. Her research work has gained 100K in funding which has primarily focused on Diabetes Therapeutics and Transplantation in preclinical models.