Lorena Brown
Laboratory Head
Microbiology and Immunology
Doherty Institute
Australia
Biography
Professor Lorena Brown is a virologist who heads a laboratory dedicated to understanding and controlling influenza. After completing her PhD degree at the University of Melbourne, she was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She returned to the University of Melbourne on a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship and has received 31 continuous years of NHMRC funding to support her research. She transitioned from her role as an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow to a teaching/research position in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, lecturing virology to students of Science and Medicine.
Research Interest
Lorena has research interest in influenza virology
