I have a balanced academic role as Head of the iMOD and Islet Biology group within the College of Medicine and Public Health.

My fascination with the immune system began with a research PhD in transplantation immunology (with Prof Keryn Williams) and was further developed during gene therapy projects engineering transplantated tissue to protect itself by secreting immunomodulatory proteins. In 2006 I was awarded an NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to train with Prof Simon Davis in Oxford, UK, where we zoomed in closely on molecular events occuring at the immunological synapse. I returned to Adelaide in 2008 to work with Prof Toby Coates and Prof Claudine Bonder on research running alongside Australia's first trial of clinical pancreatic islet transplantation for Type I diabetes at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. In 2012 I was recruited to Flinders University on a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship where I continue to direct research projects on transplantation and immunomodulation, as well as balancing a teaching load in the MD course of the College.

We actively maintain close collaborations with Prof Damien Keating's and Prof Claudine Bonder's research groups.

We acknowledge support from generous funding bodies including NHMRC, Diabetes Australia, Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation, FMC Foundation and Dept of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology