Centre for Inflammatory Diseases

Scientists and staff

Director
Professor Steve Holdsworth

Chief Investigators
Professor Ban-Hock Toh, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA
Associate Professor Richard Kitching, MB ChB, FRACP, PhD
Associate Professor Philip Bardin
Associate Professor Eric Morand
Associate Professor William Sievert
Associate Professor Peter Tipping
Dr Frank Alderuccio, BSc(Hons), PhD
Dr Michael Hickey, PhD
Dr Kumar Visvanathan MBBS FRACP PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr Jim Apostolopoulos
Dr Mark Biondo
Dr James Chan
Dr Michelle Leech (Deputy Group Leader – Arthritis)
Dr Ming Li
Dr Leilani Santos
Dr Chris Siatskas
Dr Sonja McKeown
Dr YuanHang Yang

Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr Jennifer Ralph
Dr Jiro Yamana

Research Asistants
April Dacumos
Pamela Hall
Lynelle Jones, BSc(Hons)
Rain Kwan, B Biomed Sci (Hons)

Vesna Markovska, BSci(Hons)
Zeyad Nasa
Kim O’Sullivan, MSc
Tim Semple, BSc(Hons)
Narelle Skinner BAppSci(Hons)
Evonne Tim
Alice Wright BAppSci

Students
PhD students
Dr Alberta Hoi
Dr Josh Kausman
Dr Christopher MacIsaac
Dr Richard Phoon
Dr Dilip Ratnam
Dr Adam Testro
Dr Alex Thompson

Michael Ditiatkovski
Judith Field
Julia Gregory
Hyun Ja Ko
Michael Kuligowski
Karyn Lister
Kim Murphy
Dragana Odobasic
Josh Ooi
Yen Pham
Diana Tan
Elliott Taranto
Kelly To
Yugang Tu
Connie Wong (co-supervised with Dr Peter Crack, University of Melbourne)

Masters Science (Reproductive Science) student
Will James

Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honors) students
Poh-Yi Gan
Premila Hirubalan
Cecelia Lo
Ahrathy Selathurai
Cyndi Wong

Bachelor of Medical Science student
Ee-Jun Ban

Bachelor of Science (Honours) student
Dexter Chun