Professor Chalmers is Dean of Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Genetics at the University of Tasmania. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Donald is Chair of the Gene Technology Ethics and Community Consultative Committee, Deputy Chair of the NHMRC Embryo Research Licensing Committee and a member of the NHMRC Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) from 1994 to 2000. Internationally, he is a member of the Human Genome Organisation Ethics Committee and the International Cancer Genome Consortium. His current major research work involves an examination of the legal and governance arrangements for human tissue biobanks. His current major research interests are health law and genetics, research ethics and law reform. Donald was appointed to the Board of NBOCC on 12 June 2009.