Professor Peter Revill, AM, is Head of Regional and Global Health at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) and a Fellow of the Australasian Society for Microbiology and the Australasian Virology Society. He leads the Hepatitis B cure laboratory and is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne Department of Infectious Diseases where he is also head of basic and translational research. He is also Head of International Research Partnerships and co-lead of the Global Health Cross Cutting Discipline at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, where he co-leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Closing the gap on Hepatitis B virus and HTLV-1 cure – CLoVer. In 2016 he co-founded the global HBV cure initiative, the International Coalition to Eliminate Hepatitis B (ICE-HBV) to promote HBV cure research worldwide and was ICE-HBV’s founding Governing Board Chair. He has previously served as President of the Australian Centre for Hepatitis Virology and as Virology theme lead for the Australasian Microbiology Society. He has published 117 peer reviewed papers and in 2022 was recognized in the Queen’s Birthday Order of Australia honors for services to Microbiology and Immunology research.