Professor Timothy Hughes is the Cancer Theme Leader at SAHMRI; Beat Cancer Professor, University of Adelaide and Consultant Haematologist in the Division of Haematology in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He is also Chair of the International Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Foundation (iCMLf); Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS). Professor Hughes is an international expert in the biology and treatment of leukaemia. He led the establishment of the molecular response criteria that are used world-wide to measure response in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and has led many of the key Global and National trials. He has published over 280 papers and over 40,000 citations.