Dr McMahon is an Infectious Diseases physician and Head of Clinical Research at the Alfred Hospital, an ID physician at Monash Medical Centre and Chairs the ARV Committee for the Australian Society of HIV Medicine. His research interests are in clinical trials focused on HIV Cure and antiretroviral therapy.

Jared Stern is an Honours Student in the Lewin-Cameron Laboratory at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. As an up-and-coming student, he is passionate in pursuing a career involving HIV cure research, as well as being involved in the realm of advocacy.

Christina Fichter finished her Bachelor's Degree in biotechnology at the University of South Westphalia in Germany. After starting the Master's program in biotechnology at the University of Münster she migrated to Sydney to conduct her Master's thesis at the Kirby Institute.

Vera Klemm is a PhD candidate at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, focussed on exploring mechanisms of epigenetic silencing of HIV-1 in vitro and in vivo in a variety of cell lines and primary cells. She received her Master degree in 2017 in Infection Biology at the University Lübeck, Germany.

Orvin Atthi is a current honours student at the Kirby Institute working on HIV gene therapy. Previously, Orvin completed a Bachelor of Medical Science at UNSW, and has previously worked at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research as an undergraduate research student in the field of diabetes and obesity.

Andrew is a graduate student in the laboratory of HIV Biology at the Kirby Institute. Andrew's PhD projects are focused on the development of a clinical gene therapy vector for the use towards HIV-1 cure.