Richard Kitching
Director
Medicine
Monash University
Australia
Biography
Professor A Richard Kitching is a physician-scientist in the Department of Medicine. He heads a group working in defining how the immune system can injury the kidney in disease. He is the Director of the Monash Centre for Inflammatory Diseases. His research focuses on understanding the involvement of leukocytes (white blood cells) in glomerulonephritis, an important cause of kidney disease, so that more targeted and effective treatments can be developed and used.
Research Interest
Glomerulonephritis, Autoimmune Diseases, T cells, Personalised Immunology
