Neuroinflammation Research Group

2022 Neuroinflammation group L-R: Shu Wen, Connie Wong, Jenny Wilson, Liam McKay, Huynh Nguyen, Kathryn Prame Kumar, Althea Suthya

About the Neuroinflammation Research Group

YouTube video (1.38min)A/Prof Connie Wong received the 2019 CSL Limited Centenary Fellowship. Video courtesy: CSL

Inflammation is one of the first responses of the immune system to infection or injury. Our laboratory uses cutting edge in vivo imaging techniques to directly visualise and study the immune processes involved in inflammation in both infectious and non-infectious models. By imaging these complex cellular interactions in real time, we begin to understand how immune cells function and interact under physiological and pathological disease states. Current work focuses on the mechanisms that underlie immune impairment and identify strategies to strengthen the host immune defence to:

limit infections after stroke
regulate inflammatory cell function during neuroinflammation.
modulate inflammation during sepsis

Graduate research projects

Group Head

Associate Professor Connie Wong

After completing her PhD at Monash University in 2008, A/Prof Connie Wong was trained in the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the University of Calgary in Canada and the Department of Immunology (Clayton) at Monash University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She now leads the Neuroinflammation Research Group at the Monash Health Translational Precinct. A/Prof Wong was awarded The Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize in 2013 and Victorian Tall Poppy award in 2017. Her research is funded by NHMRC and National Heart Foundation. She is a current recipient of the CSL Centenary Fellowship. Find out more about A/Prof Connie Wong.