People
Chief Investigators
Professor Carola Vinuesa
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Professor Matthew Cook
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Professor David Fulcher
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Professor Stephen Alexander
Westmead Hospital | The University of Sydney
Professor Richard Kitching
Monash University
Dr Anselm Enders
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Dr Rafael Casellas
NIH/NIAIDS | United States of America
Dr Klaus Schwarz
University of Ulm | Germany
Professor Mauricio Arcos-Burgos
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Mr Matthew Field
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Dr Dan Andrews
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
Advisory Board
Mr Peter Yates AM (Chairman)
Deputy Chairman of The Myer Family Investments Ltd and a Director of AIA Australia Limited.
Ms Nicole Feely
Director-General, ACT Health Directorate.
Professor Simon Foote FFSc (RCPA), FAHMS, FTSE
Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University.
Professor Oliver Mayo FAA FTSE
Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Animal, Food and Nutrition. Adjunct Professor, Faculty of the Sciences, University of Adelaide.
Dr Sue Meek AO FTSE
Chief Executive, Australian Academy of Science.
Dr Keats Nelms
Director, Business Development, The Australian National University.
Professor Virginia Pascual MD PhD
Director, Center for Inflammation and Autoimmune Diseases Director, Center for Personalized Medicine (Baylor Research Institute).
Associate Investigators
Professor Rajiv Khana
Leads the Tumour Immunology Laboratory at QIMR and is the director of the QIMR Berghofer Centre for Immunotherapy and Vaccine Development.
Professor Chris Goodnow
Pioneer of large-scale mouse immunogenomics projects.
Professor Ian Alexander
Heads the gene therapy group at the CMRI in the Westmead Hub.
Associate Professor Russell Dale
NHMRC fellow and paediatric neurologist.
Dr Davinder Singh Grewal
Paediatrician and Paediatric Rheumatologist.
Professor Stephan Ehl
Head of the Centre for Chronic immunodeficiency at the University of Freiburg.
Professor Robert Brink
Head of the Immunology Research Division at the Garvan Institute.
Dr Jalila Alshekaili
Immunopathologist in Oman.
Dr Keats Nelms
Director of Business Development at The Australian National University.
Professor Nicholas Glasgow
Dean Medicine & Health Sciences and Dean Medical School College of Medicine Biology & Environment, The Australian National University.
Project Leaders
Dr Vicki Athanasopoulos
(Postdoctoral Fellow, ANU) CRISPR/Cas9 editing.
Dr Fabienne Brilot-Turville
(Postdoctoral Scientist, CHW) Autoimmune brain disease.
Dr Julia Ellyard
(Postdoctoral Fellow, ANU) Genetic basis of organ-specific autoimmunity.
Dr Jeff Fletcher
(Paediatric Nephrologist, The Canberra Hospital) National registry of renal genetic disease.
Dr Poh Gan
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Monash University) Effector pathways in renal vasculitis.
Dr Simon Jiang
(Nephrologist and PhD student ANU) Genetics of systemic autoimmunity.
Dr Hugh McCarthy
(Nephrologist, CHW, completing PhD) Genetics of Nephrotic Sd.
Dr Andrew Mallett
(Nephrologist completing PhD at UQ SIA) Renal genetic testing.
Dr Joshua Ooi
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Monash University) Effector pathways in renal vasculitis.
Dr Katrina Randall
(Senior Lecturer, ANU) Primary immune deficiency.
Dr Rebecca Sweet
(Postdoctoral Fellow, ANU) Pathogenesis of SLE.
Dr Giles Walters
(Nephrologist at The Canberra Hospital) Pathogenesis of vasculitis.
Dr Yuan Min Wang
(Post Doctoral Fellow in SIA lab CHW) Autoimmune renal disease.
Dr Zuopeng Wu
(Postdoctoral Fellow, ANU) Pathogenesis of HLH and sarcoidosis.
Support Staff
Dr Ed Bertram
Executive Officer, Centre for Personalised Immunology, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University