Professor Nik Zeps is Director of Operations of the Cancer Research Program and a Professor of Practice within the Department of Chronic Disease and Ageing at Monash University in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He was recently the Director of Research at Northern Health

He has held leadership roles in National and International research programs including the NHMRC Research Committee and Australian Health Ethics Committee. In 2017 he was commissioned to co-write the current Australian Clinical Trials Handbook for the TGA and was awarded the NHMRC Ethics Prize in recognition of his contribution to human research ethics in Australia. Nik was a founding Director of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) and leads the rapid trial start up and teletrials initiatives.