The Doherty Institute’s Theme Leaders role is to devise and lead the implementation of the Doherty Institute’s strategic plan across their areas of expertise.
Immunology
Professor Laura Mackay
Laura Mackay is a Laboratory Head at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at The University of Melbourne and holds an Adjunct appointment at the Singapore Immunology Network at A*STAR in Singapore.
Professor Jose Villadangos
Professor Jose Villadangos has a dual appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bio21 Institute.
Antimicrobial Resistance
Dr Rodney James
Dr Norelle Sherry
Norelle is an Infectious Diseases Physician & Clinical Microbiologist, co-appointed at MDU-PHL and Austin Health, with a special interest in antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Viral Infectious Diseases
Dr Sarah Londrigan
Dr Sarah Londrigan is a teaching and research academic in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, leading a program examining cellular responses to respiratory virus infection.
Dr Chuan Kok Lim
Dr Chuan Kok Lim is a Medical Virologist and Acting Director of the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL). He plays a role in leading the public health laboratory response to disease outbreak investigation and surveillance.
Bacterial and Parasitic Infections
Professor Christopher McDevitt
Christopher obtained his PhD in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of Queensland, Australia. He then spent six years as a postdoctoral researcher studying membrane transport proteins at the University of Oxford, UK.
Associate Professor Ashraful Haque
Ashraful received his first NHMRC grant in 2010, and started a research group at QIMR Berghofer in 2012. With NHMRC Project and Ideas Grants, and ARC Discovery funding, he has studied host/parasite interactions in blood-stage malaria, with a specific interest in single-cell genomics.
