Margaret Morris is Professor of Pharmacology at UNSW Sydney. She is known nationally and internationally in the research field of obesity, especially around the central control of appetite, the transmission of obesity across generations, and impacts of the modern diet on metabolic health and cognition. She has over 310 publications in leading obesity, neuroscience, pharmacology, endocrinology and physiology journals, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of her research, which currently explores the mechanisms underlying obesity, and the role of the gut-microbiome-brain axis in behaviour and cognition. Her research work is extensively discussed in mainstream print, radio, television and social media, with over a million reads in The Conversation. Currently funded by NHMRC and ARC, Prof Morris has successfully supervised 35 PhD and 60 Honours students to completion. She is a strong advocate for Pharmacology, having played a key role in educating clinicians, scientists and young medical researchers in Pharmacology for more than 35 years across three Universities.