Ravi Savarirayan

Mr Ravi Savarirayan has been a member of our board of directors and our Independent Non-Executive Director since April 2017. He has been a consultant clinical geneticist at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services since August 1999, as well as professor and research group leader of Molecular therapies at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute since September 2000. Prof. Savarirayan has served as a founding member of the Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium since January 2011 and has acted as the chair of the specialist advisory committee in clinical genetics at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians since February 2009. He was president of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Society from July 2009 to June 2011 and has been an invited member of several international working committees on constitutional diseases of bone. Prof. Savarirayan's primary research focus is on inherited disorders of the skeleton causing short stature, arthritis and osteoporosis.