WEHI Wednesday Seminar hosted by Associate Professor Joanna Groom
 

Professor Katherine Kedzierska, PhD FAHMS

NHMRC Investigator Fellow & UoM Dame Kate Campbell Fellow; Deputy Head, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity

Defining risk factors associated with life-threatening respiratory viral disease

 

Davis Auditorium

Join via SLIDO enter code #WEHIWednesday

Including Q&A session
 

Professor Katherine Kedzierska is the NHMRC Investigator Fellow and Lab Head in Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute. Her research interests include human immunity to pandemic, seasonal and newly emerged respiratory viruses, anti-viral immunity in the young, the elderly, pregnant women and Indigenous Australians, viral escape and generation of immunological memory in human viral infection. She also studies host risk factors underpinning life-threatening and fatal disease outcomes from respiratory viral infections.

Katherine received her PhD from Monash University in 2002 for her studies on immune functions in HIV infection.  Her postdoctoral research with Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty at University of Melbourne focused on the early establishment of influenza-specific CD8+ T cell memory, TCR repertoire diversity and viral escape in a mouse model of influenza virus infection To date, Katherine has published 250 manuscripts. She is a recipient of prestigious awards, including 2023 Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases, 2016 Australian Academy of Science Jacque Miller Medal, 2011 NHMRC Excellence Award and 2011 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Award. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Hokkaido University, Japan.

All welcome!