Nicole La Gruta
Professor Nicole La Gruta is Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and heads the T cell development and function laboratory at Monash University. Nicole is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow, whose program of research focuses on deepening our understanding of the fundamental determinants of effective T cell immunity, aging related immune decline, and T cell mediated autoimmunity. Nicole completed her PhD at Monash University, studying T cell mediated initiation of autoimmune disease. She then undertook postdoctoral studies with Dario Vignali at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee, before returning to the University of Melbourne in 2002 with Laureate Prof Peter Doherty, to study antiviral T cell immunity. Nicole established her independent research program in 2007 and was recruited to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, in 2016, where she engages in a comprehensive program of discovery, clinical and industry-based research. Over the course of her career, she has been the recipient of multiple prestigious fellowships, including the Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship, an ARC Future Fellowship, and most recently the Monash University Maureen Brunt Award. Her laboratory continues to engage in a comprehensive program of discovery, clinical and industry-based research.
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