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Prof. Dr. Cecile King

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The Garvan Institute for Medical Research/St. Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW Medicine
Immunology

External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September – January 2019

E-Mail: c.king@garvan.org.au

Last Update: 31.08.2019

Curriculum Vitae

Dr King received her PhD from the Institute for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia and completed her postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. Dr King joined the faculty of the Department of Immunology at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia in 2005 and is a conjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales.

Dr King continues to be intrigued by how the immune system maintains tolerance to self. Her research is focused on how interactions between the environment and immune system influence chronic inflammation and autoimmune disease. Dr King has made some important contributions to our understanding of how cytokines influence adaptive immune responses, including the identification of IL-21 as a therapeutic target in autoimmune disease. Dr King’s interests now include genes within type 1 IFN regulatory pathways that are associated with autoimmune disease risk and how these innate immune genes influence adaptive immune responses.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project