Professor Lorena Brown
(03) 8344 3865 | lorena@unimelb.edu.au
- Position:
- Professor, Teaching and Research Academic
- Theme(s):
- Immunology, Viral Infectious Diseases, Bacterial and Parasitic Infections, Emerging Infections, Influenza
- Discipline(s):
- Discovery Research, Education & Professional Development, Clinical and health systems research
- Unit(s):
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI)
- Lab Group(s):
- Brown Group
Professor Lorena Brown is a virologist who heads a laboratory dedicated to understanding and controlling influenza. After completing her PhD degree at the University of Melbourne, she was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She returned to the University of Melbourne on a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship and has received 31 continuous years of NHMRC funding to support her research. She transitioned from her role as an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow to a teaching/research position in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, lecturing virology to students of Science and Medicine.
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Key Achievements
Publications
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Lorena is a leader in influenza virology in Australia and her work contributes to an NHMRC Program devoted to understanding why some individuals or populations experience particularly severe outcomes of influenza. Her translational research skills, learnt from high-level involvement in the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology, have led to significant advances in the pursuit of better vaccines and therapeutics for influenza. Her group has also made major discoveries on how the virus evolves by swapping its genes and what may be the consequences of this for human disease during pandemics. Lorena’s international collaborative efforts in influenza have been recognised by the Russian Academy of Science and she is a member of the Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education in the area of zoonosis control in Hokkaido University, Japan.
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Brown Group
Lorena’s group is dedicated to understanding different aspects of influenza virus structure and replication, as well as the host immune response to the virus that may impact on disease outcome. They study areas of vulnerability that can be targeted by vaccines and therapeutics to control seasonal and highly pathogenic isolates.
Lab Team
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Senior Research Officer
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Senior Research Officer
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Sanja TrifkovicPhD student
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Robert AllenPhD student
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Patricia LeePhD student
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Emily FairmaidResearch Assistant
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Charley Mackenzie-KludasResearch Assistant
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Wy Ching NgResearch Assistant
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Michael MarazitaTechnical Assistant
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Takuji DaitoVisitor
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