Roger Reddel (AO, BSc (Med), MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FAAHMS, FAA) is the Director of The Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) and the Sir Lorimer Dods Professor, University of Sydney. His training included medical oncology, and laboratory-based molecular cancer research. His research has mostly focussed on cancer cell immortalization, including the role of telomerase and the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres mechanism. Roger is a co-founder of ProCan®, an international collaborative program that aims to develop proteomic techniques and a knowledge base to enable routine use of proteomics in clinical oncology.