Professor Tiganis' general research interest is in understanding the cellular signalling networks and tissue crosstalk in human disease. He was educated at The University of Melbourne and completed his PhD with Prof. Bruce E. Kemp, St Vincent's Institute, Melbourne, before pursuing post-doctoral training with Prof. Nicholas K. Tonks, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. He established an independent laboratory at Monash University in 2000. He is a National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia L3 Investigator, an Associate Editor for Science Advances and the Editor-in-Chief for Molecular & Cellular Biology. Professor Tiganis leads the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Metabolism, Diabetes and Obesity Program. His laboratory takes an integrative approach that stems the fields of metabolism, immunology and cancer to address fundamental questions in biology and disease. A particular focus is the pathophysiological mechanisms contributing to obesity and type 2 diabetes and how these in turn drive the development of diseases such non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cancer.