Prof Walkley completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the University of South Australia in 1999 and completed a PhD at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre/University of Melbourne in 2003. He then undertook post-doctoral training with Professor Stuart Orkin at the Dana-Farber Cancer Centre, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston USA. In 2008 Dr Walkley returned to Australia and head’s the Cancer and RNA Lab at St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. He moved to the HUdson Institute/Monash University in 2024. His laboratory has a long standing interest in understanding A-to-I RNA editing and the ADAR proteins, focused on its role in regulating immune sensing of self-RNAs.