Hudson Seminar “Unravelling the effects of intrauterine inflammation on lung development”- 24 June

Friday 24 June, 12-1 pm, Lecture Theatre 1, Monash Medical Centre. 

Speaker: Associate Professor Tim Moss, Deputy Director, The Ritchie Centre,
Research Group Head, Perinatal Inflammation

NHMRC Senior Research Fellow

Associate Professor Tim Moss is a developmental physiologist and expert in perinatology. He received his PhD from Monash University in 1999, before establishing the Women and Infants Research Foundation Perinatal Research Laboratories at the University of Western Australia as a leading international centre for perinatal research. He returned to Monash in 2007 and joined the Ritchie Centre at the Hudson Institute in 2010.

Tim’s research is focussed on understanding how exposure to infection or inflammation in utero alters development of the fetus to affect health after birth. His group is also investigating ways to treat or prevent inflammation and its effects on newborns.

Tim is a leader in perinatology. He is a Board Member of the international Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society and occupies senior positions in the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Light refreshments to follow presentation outside the Lecture Theatre.