Women Speakers Database
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Name
Gabrielle Belz -
Email
belz@wehi.edu.au -
Country/Region
Australia -
Institute
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute -
Career Stage
Tenured Faculty -
Website
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Research Interests
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Profile
Gabrielle Belz originally trained in Veterinary medicine and surgery and received her PhD from the University of Queensland. She completed her postdoctoral training with Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty after receiving a NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship to work on viral infections. Her research contributions have been recognized by a number of awards including a Wellcome Trust Overseas Fellowship, HHMI international fellowship, ARC Future fellowship, NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship, Doctorate of Veterinary Science and the Gottschalk Medal (Australian Academy of Science). Currently, she leads a research team that focuses on deciphering the key cellular and transcriptional signals used by naïve and memory T cells in infections and in understanding how innate immune cells develop and contribute to protection against infections. During this time she has been Editor-in-Chief of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology journal Immunology and Cell Biology and the sister journal Clinical and Translational Immunology and is currently a Deputy Editor at the Journal of Immunology for the American Association of Immunology.