Julie Campbell is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at the University of Queensland, and Director of the Wesley Research Institute at the Wesley Hospital.  Her major research interest over the last 30 years has been the cell biology of vascular smooth muscle in the normal artery wall and in diseased states such as atherosclerosis.  Recently she developed a vascular conduit, grown in the peritoneal cavity, from autologus bone marrow-derived cells. In 1995 she was awarded the Wellcome Australia Medal and in 2000 was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. In 2003 she received a Centenary Medal, and in 2004 was named a ‘Queensland Great’.  She was awarded an Order of Australia, Officer (AO) in the General Division in June 2006 and in 2007 Queensland Businesswoman of the Year 2007 - Public & Not for Profit Section