CID weekly seminar series, Dr Claire Dendle and Dr Holly Hutton, 12 December

12-1pm, Tuesday 12 December, Seminar Room 1, TRF

Dr. Claire Dendle, Monash Infectious Diseases

Claire is an Infectious Diseases physician at Monash Health. She has a special interest in infections in immunocompromised patients.

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Dr. Holly Hutton, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases

“New insights into the pathogenesis of ANCA vasculitis: Monoclonal anti-MPO antibodies and the role of the NLRP3 inflammasome”

MPO-ANCA vasculitis is characterised by both T cell and B cell immunity to a neutrophil protein, myeloperoxidase; the presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, or ANCA; and small vessel vasculitis which commonly affects the kidneys. This pre-submission seminar focusses on two aspects of ANCA vasculitis.

Dr Holly Hutton is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University. Her research and clinical interest is renal immunology. After obtaining her FRACP in clinical nephrology, Holly undertook a clinical fellowship at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she focused on clinical aspects of autoimmune kidney disease and kidney transplantation. She is currently completing a laboratory based PhD which focuses on aspects of ANCA associated vasculitis, and also has a clinical appointment as a Nephrologist at Alfred Health.