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Peter Croucher is a bone biologist and cancer researcher with a longstanding fascination for disorders of the skeleton, particularly osteoporosis and cancer-associated bone disease. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying bone diseases and how cancers spread to bone, as well as the processes controlling dormancy and reactivation of cancer cells in bone. He aims to explore the clinical impacts of his research, which has the potential for widespread future implications for bone disease and cancer relapse. Croucher heads the Garvan Institute's Bone Biology research lab and has been instrumental in leading several international research consortia, including Promis, co-funded by the Movember Prostate Cancer Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust-funded Origins of Bone & Cartilage Disease program. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield before becoming a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences in 2001. Returning to the University of Sheffield in 2003 as a Professor of Bone Biology, he founded the Department of Human Metabolism in 2009 and became the inaugural co-Director of the Mellanby Centre for Bone Research. In 2011, Croucher moved to the Garvan Institute in Sydney, where he took on the role of Division Head of Bone Biology and was awarded the inaugural Mrs. Janice Gibson & Ernest Heine Family Foundation Chair in Osteoporosis. In 2018, he led Garvan's Healthy Ageing research theme, which unites a multidisciplinary group of 150 researchers and clinician-scientists studying osteoporosis, cancer bone interactions, type 2 diabetes, metabolic disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases. He also serves as the Deputy Director of Garvan, overseeing whole-of-institute scientific affairs.