Marcel Dinger is Professor and Head of School for Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at UNSW Sydney. He has more than 20 years experience in genomics as both an academic and entrepreneur. He has published 143 papers that have collectively been cited >20,000 times (Google Scholar h-index 56) and is (co)-founder of four startups in biotechnology and IT. He is a director on the board of Pryzm Health, a digital health enterprise focused on developed tools to enable precision healthcare at population-scale, a director on the governance board of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG), an ANU-based centre focused on using genomics to improve the health and well-being of Australia's First Peoples, and President of the Australasian Genomics Technologies Association (AGTA), the principal body for the promotion of genomics research and technologies in Australasia.