Professor Peter Fuller is currently Head of the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Head of the Endocrinology Unit at Monash Health, in Melbourne Australia. He is a physician-scientist whose research interests lie primarily in understanding the molecular mechanisms of adrenocortical steroid hormone action. His group also studies the molecular pathogenesis of endocrine tumours. He has served on principle committees/boards of the Endocrine Society (USA), NHMRC, Cancer Council of Victoria, Victorian Cancer Agency and Endocrine Society of Australia. He has received awards from the Welcome Trust, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the British Endocrine Society and the Endocrine Society of Australia. In 2015 he was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.