Joshua Ooi

Regulatory T Cell Therapies Research Group

Biography

Dr Ooi is an Al and Val Rosenstrauss Fellow in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health.  His lab focusses on generating autoantigen-specific regulatory T cells to treat autoimmune diseases.

During his PhD (2009) and post-doctoral training, Dr. Ooi showed that inflammatory T helper cells specific for self proteins (known as autoantigens) underlie the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease. Now, Dr. Ooi and his team are devising regulatory T cell based therapies that specifically switch off the autoantigen-specific inflammatory response.

His work has been published in the top journals including in PNAS, J Clin Invest and Nature; and he has received funding by the NHMRC, Rebecca Cooper Medical Research Foundation and the Lupus Research Alliance to develop these new and innovative therapies.

Research Interests

• Identification of autoimmune T cell epitopes and T cell receptors (TCRs)
• Generation of antigen specific regulatory T cells
• Cell based therapies to treat autoimmune disease

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