Marc Pellegrini

Marc Pellegrini is an infectious diseases physician and Head of the Infectious Diseases and Immunity Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. His research, in discovery biology, is focused on improving management of infectious diseases that threaten to become the major contributor to morbidity and mortality globally. In the context of clinical paradigms, he endeavours to deliver new diagnostics, interventions and treatments that are underpinned by a compressive understanding of pathogen dynamics, host-pathogen interactions and regulated host cell death processes. He has been awarded several prizes including the Centenary, Burnet, Fenner, BUPA, Viertel, NHMRC Excellence and two Eureka Prizes for his therapeutic discoveries.