Dr South was formerly the Senior Commercialisation Officer (Life Sciences) in the Research Development & Innovation office at The University of Western Australia (UWA) and has over 12 years experience in technology transfer in medtech / biotech sector, at The University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland University of Technology and UWA. Sam has background in medical research at Weill Medical College at Cornell University (NY), UQ and The Garvan Institute in CNS research. She was also the Preclinical Manager at TetraQ, a preclinical contract organisation, specialising in central nervous system animal models. Sam was the UWA Director on UWA spin-out companies MiReven Pty Ltd, Eridan Technologies Pty Ltd and OncoRes Medical Pty Ltd and is currently a Director of Rage Biotech Pty Ltd. Sam is also WA Ausbiotech Committee Chair, part of the Ausmedtech National Advisory Group and the SBE Life Sciences Council.