Annette Trickett is the Principal Scientist/Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Laboratory that provides services to Sydney Children’s and Prince of Wales Hospitals, having worked in the cellular therapy field for more than 35 years. Her PhD involved expansion of T cells for patients with HIV. She is a conjoint lecturer at UNSW, inspector for both NATA and FACT, established the centralised quality management system for the NSW BMT Network, and was previously the Director of AusCord Cord Blood Banks in Sydney and Melbourne.