Magdalena Plebanski
Monash University, Australia
Biography
Magdalena Plebanski leads the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Unit at the Department of Immunology, Monash University, Australia. She is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and the inaugural co-Head of the Immunotherapeutics Division at the newly established Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME). Her qualifications include: BScHon (UNAM, Mexico); MBA (Deakin University, Australia); PhD (Bristol University, UK). She published >125 peer-reviewed papers (plus numerous conference abstracts), with >5000 citations, including high-profile: Lancet, Nature Biotechnology, Science, Nature, Immunity, Nature Medicine, Plos Pathogens, Nature Communications, Clin Cancer Res. Her 5 families of PCT patents have progressed to commercialisation nationally and internationally. Her research interests include vaccines, adjuvants, cancer, malaria, asthma, regulatory T cells (Treg), inflammation, lung and antigen presenting cells (APC).\r\n\r\n