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Research Projects

Project: How to harness the immune system to cure cancer: adoptive cell immunotherapy

Villadangos Group

This project will exploit a mouse model of lymphoma to improve outcomes of adoptive cell therapy.

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Project Supervisor

Professor Jose Villadangos

Project Co-supervisor

Dr Justine Mintern

Project availability
Honours

Villadangos Group

j.villadangos@unimelb.edu.au

10 vacancies

Themes
Immunology
Bacterial and Parasitic Infections
Cross Cutting Disciplines
Discovery Research
Clinical and health systems research

The Villadangos group studies the first event that triggers adaptive immune responses: the presentation of pathogen or tumour antigens to T cells by dendritic cells, B cells and macrophages. We are characterising the development, regulation and impairment of antigen presenting cells by pathogens, inflammatory mediators and tumours. We are also dissecting the biochemical machinery involved in antigen capture, processing and presentation. We use this knowledge to understand how T cell-dependent immunity is initiated and maintained, and apply it to design better vaccines and immunotherapies against infectious agents and cancer.