All Menzies Memorial Scholars
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DR MARIE ESTCOURT
MMSA Secretary/Treasurer 2007-2009
2001 NH MRC/RG Menzies Fellowship
Education
PhD, Division of Immunology and Cell Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research.
Marie's thesis was entitled "Prime-boost immunization and the nature of the induced immune response".
Marie took up her Fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliff Hospital, Oxford University in March 2002. Her course of study was “Analysis of CD8 T cell memory generation following cell mediated vaccination strategies”.
Current
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre
for Experimental Immunology, Lions Eye Institute, University of Western
Australia. Marie holds a Raine Medical Research Foundation
Priming Grant and her work focuses on understanding T cell responses in persisting
infections and interactions of T cells with the innate immune system.