Prof. Richard Ferrero is Deputy Centre Head and Research Group Leader at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and holds adjunct positions at Monash University. After completing his PhD in 1990, at the University of NSW, he took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institut Pasteur, Paris. In 1994, he was appointed to a tenured researcher position at the institute. In 2004, he returned to Australia to take up a research/teaching academic position in the Department of Microbiology, Monash University, and then, in 2009, was recruited to his current position. His main research interests span the fields of Helicobacter pylori, bacterial extracellular vesicles, NOD-like receptor proteins and innate immunology. His research has translated to important fundamental and applied outcomes in the areas of bacterial pathogenesis, H. pylori vaccine development and innate immunology. This research has been published in leading journals i.e. Cell Host Microb., Gastroenterol., Immunity, Nat Commun., Nat Rev Immunol., Nat Immunol. and PNAS. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Helicobacter and the International Scientific Committee of “The International Workshop on Pathogenesis in Helicobacter infections”, and reviews abstracts to the major international conferences in the fields of gastroenterology and H. pylori research.