Deputy Chairman of the Company, Professor Macdonald brings a wealth of experience in clinical medicine, basic biomedical science and in the field of licensing and commercialisation to the Company. He has had an outstanding career first as an academic nephrologist, and then moving into the pharmaceutical industry with Merck Sharp and Dohme (Australia). During this time he successfully brokered a number of high profile agreements including a US$100 million-plus deal with AMRAD (now Zenyth Therapeutics) to develop a new asthma treatment.
Graham is currently a director and Chairman of Vectus Biosciences Limited and director and chairman of Stem Cells Limited. In June 2012 Professor Macdonald received an Australian Queen's Birthday Honour in the General Division of the Order of Australia for ‘service to biomedical research in the areas of hypertension and renal disease, to medical education, to the promotion and awareness raising of organ donation, and as a mentor’.