In 2021, Tejas completed his Honours project on functional subsets of MAIT cells at the Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute in Ballarat. Tejas’ interest in viral immunology developed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This led him to commence a PhD position in 2022 in the laboratory of Professor Katherine Kedzierska in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology to study influenza-specific immunity across age and is currently in the second year of his PhD. Along side his research, Tejas is active with student and social events within the institute having joined the executive committee of the POSSIM student society as treasurer (2023-2024).
