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Clinical Immunology

Teaching

Medical staff provide lectures and tutorials for undergraduate medical students from the University of Western Australia (UWA). Postgraduate teaching is provided for FRACP basic and advanced (Immunology) trainees, science students (biotherapuetics) and service trainees (residents).

Currently, members of the department are supervising 13 students from UWA and Murdoch University.

Research

The department has a very active research program and works with the UWA and Murdoch universities. Research is being undertaken on pathogen/host genetic interactions and vaccine development strategies, HIV clinical trials (national and international), metabolic complications of antiretroviral therapy, disorders of immune reconstitution in HIV patients, cellular immunology of HIV and other chronic viral infections (Hepatitis C virus, cytomegalovirus), NK cell immunobiology, transplantation immunogenetics (HLA, KIR etc), pharmacogenomics of drug hypersensitivity reactions, and memory B-cells in acquired and primary immunodeficiency diseases.

Members of the Department are holders of NH&MRC, WAIMR, Arthritis Foundation, NIH and Gates Foundation grants, totalling more than $35 million dollars.