Professor Sarah Robertson is Director of the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide. Her research focus is the immune response to conception and pregnancy, and consequences for reproductive success and offspring health. Defining fundamental biological pathways and developing novel interventions targeting immune pathways to tackle fertility and gestational disorders, is the goal of her work. She is funded by the NHMRC, ARC, CIHR and Gates Foundation, and has 170 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers and reviews. She is an elected Fellow ofThe Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy for Health and Medical Sciences, and Fellow of the Society for Reproductive Biology. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.