**Meet the editor**

Dr. Jerzy K. Kulski, biochemist and geneticist, received his PhD from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1979 for his research on human lactation. He completed two post-doctoral fellowships in the USA (1980-1984), before returning to UWA to investigate the association between human papillomaviruses and uterine cervical cancer. After 1996 he held a number of teaching and

research positions including Visiting Professor at Tokai University School of Medicine (TUSOM) in Japan to study the genomics and diseases of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC). Since 2007, he has continued his studies on MHC genotyping by next generation sequencing as an adjunct at UWA in collaboration with researchers at TUSOM. He has more than 180 scientific publications and has authored a crime novel entitled "China Heist."
