Chief Investigators and Program Leads

Professor Carl Walkley, Director of the CRE
Research Group Head, RNA Biology and Innate Immune Sensing, Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash University

Professor Seth Masters, Joint Program Leader – TLR sensing and Joint Program Leader – Therapeutics
Centre Head Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Monash University

Dr Sophia Davidson, Program Leader – DNA sensing and Neuropathologies
Research Group Head, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration, Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Associate Professor Michael Gantier, Joint Program Leader – RNA sensing and Joint Program Leader – Therapeutics
Research Group Head, Nucleic Acids and Innate Immunity, Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Dr Natalia Sampaio, Joint Program Leader – RNA sensing
Research Scientist, Regulation of Interferon and Innate Signalling, Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Dr Julia Ellyard, Joint Program Leader – TLR sensing
Australian National University

Professor David Amor, Program Leader – Translation, Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne

Associate Investigators

Dr Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Dr Wilson Wong, Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Professor Tiong Yang Tan, Victorian Clinical Genetics Service and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne

Professor Paul Hertzog, Hudson Institute of Medical Research