Vicki Lawson is an Associate Professor and heads the Transmissible Neurodegeneration group in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The University of Melbourne. Following completion of her PhD studies into HIV-1 transmission and pathogenesis from the University of Melbourne (1999) she received a Postdoctoral Fellowship to train in the field of prion diseases at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, USA. On her return to Australia, she joined the Neurodegeneration group in the Department of Pathology (2002-2017), The University of Melbourne where she held an NHMRC Florey Fellowship (2002-2005) and University of Melbourne CR Roper Fellowship (2008-2011). A/Prof Lawson holds a lecturing position in the discipline of Pathology (2011- ) and was Deputy Head of the Department of Pathology (2014-2017).
