Dr Janine Trevillyan is Head of Clinical Virology and HIV Services at Austin Health, and holds an honorary appointment at the Doherty Institute in the Department of Infectious Diseases. She is an infectious diseases physician and clinical researcher whose work focuses on understanding and preventing HIV-associated comorbidities and in particular cardiovascular disease. She completed a PhD through Monash University and then went on to a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, Clinical AIDS Research and Education centre. She’s an active member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and elected member of its inflammation transformative science group committee. Janine is currently investigating methods of reducing cardiovascular risk in people living with HIV.
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Key Achievements
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Janine is the recipient of a competitive National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) early career fellowship and was the Australian representative at the Young Physician Leaders program in Berlin, Germany. She has received multiple investigator and top researcher prizes from national and international societies and the Victorian Government Public Health Care Award for innovation as part of the Alfred Health Antimicrobial Stewardship team. Janine has published widely in the areas of clinical virology and HIV-associated co-morbidities, been invited to speak at numerous national and international conferences and is a key contributor to Australian HIV managemnet guidelines committees.
Publications
Research Groups
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Lewin Group
The focus of the Lewin group is to understand why HIV infection persists on antiretroviral therapy and to develop new strategies to eliminate latency. The lab also researches factors that drive liver disease in HIV-hepatitis B virus co-infection. The lab is also actively involved in COVID in relation to pathogenesis, the use of primary tissue models, and developing therapeutics using gene editing strategies.
Lab Team

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Dr Wei Zhao
Research Fellow
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Dr Chris Chiu
Research Fellow
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Dr Youry Kim
Research Fellow
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Dr Stan Kan
Research Fellow
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Dr Jill Lau
Clinical Research Fellow
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Clinical Research Liason Officer
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Dr Judy Chang
Research Systems Administrator
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Dr Catherine Kennedy
Research Coordinator
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Ajantha Rhodes
Lab Manager
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Carolin Tumpach
Research Support Officer
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Rosalyn Cao
Research Support Officer
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Danielle Fong
Research Support Officer
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Abigail Tan
Research Support Officer
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Dr Kasha Singh
PhD student/Clinician
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Jared Stern
PhD Candidate
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Rachel Pascoe
PhD Candidate
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Paula Cevaal
PhD Candidate
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Haoming Liu
PhD Candidate
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Kiho Tanaka
PhD Candidate
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Rory Sepherd
PhD Candidate
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Lauren Wallace
Honours Student
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Bridget Fisher
Honours Student
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Associate Professor Edwina Wright
Clinical Affiliate
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Dr James McMahon
Clinical Affiliate
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Head, Clinical Virology and HIV Services, Austin Health
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Associate Professor Thomas Rasmussen
Clinical Affiliate