Dr Carola Garcia de Vinuesa
LMS (MBBS), DRCOG, MSc, PhD
Group Leader / Senior Research Fellow - Humoral and Auto Immunity Group
Immunogenomics Group
Contact Details
T: +61 2 6125 4500
E: Carola.Vinuesa@anu.edu.au
Mail Address:
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Building 54
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
Biosketch
Carola Vinuesa obtained her medical degree from the University Autonoma of Madrid
(Spain) and undertook specialist clinical training in the UK. In 1997 she was
awarded an MRC Clinical Research Fellowship to conduct doctoral studies at the
MRC Centre for Immune Regulation in Birmingham, supervised by Prof Ian MacLennan.
Vinuesa was awarded a PhD in 2000 for her work investigating B cell activation
by polysaccharides and her description of T-independent abortive germinal centre
formation. She was then awarded a Wellcome Trust International Travelling Prize
Research Fellowship to work at The John Curtin School of Medical Research with
Professor Chris Goodnow on the identification of novel autoimmune regulators.
She established novel autoimmunity and immunization screens to identify alleles
conferring susceptibility to immunodeficiency and systemic autoimmunity in ENU-treated
mice. This led to the identification of the roquin gene, a candidate lupus and
type 1 diabetes gene that prevents repression of self-reactive T cells. She
currently leads the Humoral Immunity and Autoimmunity Laboratory within the
Immunogenomics Group.
