Interventional Immunology in Disease of the Neonate, 1 September

Thursday 1 September, 12-1pm, Lecture Theatre 1, Monash Medial Centre

Hudson Seminar presented by Dr Claudia Nold, , National Heart Foundation of Australia - Fellow

Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Australia

After graduating in pharmacy at the University of the Saarland, Germany, Dr Claudia Nold was awarded a competitive three year Ph.D. Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in collaboration with the Institute of Asthma and Allergy of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2006 until 2009 Dr Nold took up a Post-doctoral position in Denver Colorado, USA in the laboratory of Prof. Charles A Dinarello. During her post-doctoral fellowship Dr. C Nold’s discovery of the function of IL-37, had a major impact on the interleukin field, leading to a fundamental reorganization of the nomenclature of the IL-1 family of cytokines.

Since her recruitment to the Ritchie Centre in 2009 she has extended her immunology research into the fields of neonatology, setting up a program investigating interventional immunology in cardiopulmonary diseases of the neonate.