P. Toby COATES is a full time clinician-scientist in the Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Renal Transplant Nephrologist, Clinical Professor in Medicine at the University of Adelaide. He is the Director of Kidney and Pancreas Islet Transplantation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was awarded a PhD in Transplantation Immunology from the University of Adelaide (2001) and undertook post-doctoral studies in Transplantation Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh  supported  by a CJ Martin Fellowship from the NHMRC (2001-2003). He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has supervised 16 Honours and PhD students to completion within the University of Adelaide. His total research funding is over $70 million since return from the USA in 2003.  His current funding from local and international funding organisations including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF). He has been the Associate Editor for Transplantation for Kidney International since 2011. He is the past President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand . His research interests are in basic immunology, translational clinical kidney/pancreas islet transplantation and experimental immunosuppression. As a translational researcher his group has started the Islet Transplant program in Adelaide for type-1 diabetes in 2006 as members of the Australian Islet Consortium, performed Australia’s first paediatric islet auto-transplant in 2015, established Australia’s first steroid-free pancreas transplant program in 2018 and pioneered development for alternative sites for islet cell transplantation. He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021 and listed on the Governor General’s Covid-19 Honour Roll in the same year. In 2022 his group was awarded the Ministers Health and Innovation in the 2022 SA Health Awards.