Jeff Keelan is Professor of Obstetrics and Head of Laboratories at the School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, University of Western Australia. Jeff is an active member of the SRB and a founding member of the Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association [ANZPRA]. He is Associated Editor of Reproduction, Fertility and Development. His has published over 120 articles in leading journals in the fields of immunology, pharmacology, obstetrics, physiology and endocrinology (>3600 citations; h-index 35). His current research is centred on the pharmacological treatment of intra-amniotic infection/inflammation, nanoparticle-based drug delivery in pregnancy, the intrauterine microbial and endocrine environment, amniotic fluid metagenomics and lipidomics. Web: http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/jeff.keelan