Prof Martin Delatycki is Medical Director of Victorian Clinical Genetic Services and Director, Bruce Lefroy Centre, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Martin has a long-standing interest in genetic screening. He was involved in two large scale haemochromatosis screening projects, one in the workplace (Haemscreen) and one in high schools (ironXS). Martin recently led a patient-blinded randomised study of therapy for individuals with haemochromatosis and moderate iron overload that showed benefit of therapy for such individuals.