Prof Franca Ronchese
Cancer Immunotherapy Group Leader
- fronchese@malaghan.org.nz
- Phone
- +64 4 499 6914
- Fax
- +64 4 499 6915
Prof Ronchese completed her studies at the University of Padova, Italy, and spent four years as a post-doctoral researcher at the NIH, USA. She then worked as an independent Scientific Member at the Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland, before being awarded a Malaghan Senior Research Fellowship.
With support from the Wellington Medical Research Foundation, Prof Ronchese established the Cancer Immunotherapy group at the Malaghan Institute in 1994. Prof Ronchese's research centres on the dendritic cell, with a particular focus on the involvement of these cells in the early phases of an immune response, and how dendritic cells can be used to best advantage as carriers in cancer vaccines.
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