I am a viral immunologist studying the requirements for an effective host response to viral infection. I am also investigating the potential for the development of efficacious vaccines to protect against infection and ways of intervening in the disease pr
I am a paediatric allergist and immunologist investigating pathways involved in normal immune development and how these differs in infants who develop allergic disease.
I work on the molecular mechanisms of innate immunity. Priorities of my work are the immune response to pathogens such as viruses and bacteria and to cancer.
Cancer immunology has emerged as a fundamental discipline of oncology and overwhelming new data from large patient studies reveals the importance of the immune reaction in patient prognosis. Professor Smyth has established a large body of work indicating that the immune reaction is rate limiting for the development of tumours. His previous fundamental work forms a platform to launch new studies that will greatly increase the sophistication with which we understand the various immune mechanisms t ....Cancer immunology has emerged as a fundamental discipline of oncology and overwhelming new data from large patient studies reveals the importance of the immune reaction in patient prognosis. Professor Smyth has established a large body of work indicating that the immune reaction is rate limiting for the development of tumours. His previous fundamental work forms a platform to launch new studies that will greatly increase the sophistication with which we understand the various immune mechanisms that control tumour initiation, growth and metastases. It is a major goal of Professor Smyth’s Australia Fellowship to understand why some tumours may be controlled by the immune response while others are apparently not. He has established mouse models of cancer where these questions can be directly addressed for the first time.Read moreRead less
I am an immunologist, working to understand the function of NKT cells, and how these cells can be manipulated as a means of immune therapy for a range of immunologically related diseases.
“I am a biomedical scientist undertaking basic and clinical research on the pathophysiology of growth plate injury and repair, which critically impacts on children’s bone growth and growth disorders. I aim to investigate the underlying mechanisms and deve