Associate Professor Joshua Lewis is a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow, lead for the Disorders of Mineralisation Group and the research program lead for the Nutrition and Health Innovation Research Institute at Edith Cowan University. His work focusses on the convergence between bone, muscle and vascular biology and how we can prevent chronic diseases of these systems before the onset of clinical symptoms. He regularly contributes to the design and conduct of randomised controlled trials and prospective cohort studies and has over 200 publications to date. His current Heart Foundation Fellowship and NHMRC Ideas grant focus on developing convenient, reliable and safe tests for vascular calcification in the abdominal aorta as well identifying mechanism(s) and modifiable factors related to this vascular calcification.