Thomas Gebhardt
Thomas is a laboratory head in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. He has a background in medicine and biomedical research and joined the University of Melbourne as a postdoctoral fellow in 2005. Over the years, he has been supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation, a RD Wright Career Development Award (NHMRC) and a CR Roper Fellowship (University of Melbourne), and currently holds a Senior Medical Research Fellowship from the Sylvia & Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation. Thomas and his team are studying basic and translational aspects of immune responses in peripheral tissues and their work pioneered the discovery and functional characterisation of so-called tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM). The overall goal of his team is to understand the role of TRM cells in health and disease and to develop future vaccines and immunotherapies that target TRM cells for improved clinical outcomes in infection, inflammation and cancer.
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