Stephen Fox is Director of Pathology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He holds an Honours degree and Medical degrees from the University of Bristol, UK and a DPhil in Medicine from the University of Oxford. He has Fellowships of both the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia (RCPA) and the UK and is also a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Science (RCPA). He is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. His current focus is the development of diagnostic predictive markers of response to therapies in several tumour types using protein and DNA-based assays.