Institute: University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital
Biography
I am an infectious diseases specialist and physician-scientist with a track record of research focused on host-parasite interactions in the pathogenesis of parasitic infections. I received my medical training at UNSW, Sydney and Infectious Diseases training and an MPH at the University of Oklahoma in the U.S.A. After clinical specialization, I pursued a career in research on parasite immunology, working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. I worked at the NIH from 2003-2017, initially on clinical trials and immunological characterization of blood stage malarial vaccines (in the US and Africa), and subsequently on filariasis and cysticercosis in humans, characterizing host immunity and immunopathology. After 13 years at the NIH as a Physician-Scientist, I joined the University of Melbourne in January, 2017, as an Associate Professor at the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service (Royal Melbourne Hospital) where I serve as an expert on human parasitic infections and agents that cause viral haemorrhagic fever. My current research interests are in the mechanisms of immunity against malaria, immunopathology of intestinal helminths and human challenge studies to investigate the pathogenesis and immunity of viral and parasitic infections.
Key Publications
A list of publications can be found here.
Web Links of Interest
https://www.doherty.edu.au/people/associate-professor-siddhartha-mahanty