The Univeristy of Melbourne The Royal Melbourne Hopspital

A joint venture between The University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital


George Taiaroa (PhD, MRSNZ) leads a research program focused on the identification and characterisation of infectious diseases through next-generation sequencing and related approaches. He has been a Research Fellow at the Doherty Institute and held an honorary role at the Royal Melbourne Hospital's Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) for more than five years. He is a member of multiple national and international research projects.

  • Research Groups
    • Stinear Group

      Tim Stinear’s group’s research addresses priorities across four connected themes that including hospital superbugs, pathogenic mycobacteria, natural product discovery and public health genomics that aim to understand and contain the spread of bacteria causing serious human disease. 


      Lab Team

      Stinear Group

      • Laboratory Head and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans
      • Postdoctoral Researcher
      • Senior Researcher
      • Infectious Diseases Physician | Medical Education Consultant | PhD Candidate
      • Research Fellow
      • Jessica Porter
        Research Assistant
      • Kirstie Mangas
        PhD Candidate
      • Andrew Buultjens
        PhD Candidate