A/Professor Vidya Limaye is a rheumatologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital who did her PhD in the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the Hanson Institute. She has a research interest in the inflammatory myopathies and has established one of the largest registries of patients with biopsy-proven inflammatory myopathies in the world. This registry has facilitated a number of clinical, histological and immunogenetic studies which have furthered the understanding of myositis.