Prof Graham Le Gros

BSc(Massey), Dip Immunol(Otago), MPHIL(Auck), PhD(Auck), FRSNZ

Asthma & Parasitic Diseases

Email
glegros@malaghan.org.nz
Phone
+64 4 499 6914
Fax
+64 4 499 6915

Prof Le Gros was appointed Research Director of the Malaghan Institute in 1994, following a three year Fogarty Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington DC, and a five year scientist position with Ciba-Geigy in Basel, Switzerland. He is a member of the Cancer Society's Scientific Committee, Lotteries Health Committee, Wellington Medical Research Foundation Scientific Committee, various science advisory groups and is a Professor of the Department of Biological Sciences, Victoria University.  In 2005 Prof Le Gros was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in recognition of his research contributions to the fields of immunology and asthma.  Prof Le Gros' overall research interest lies in understanding the basic biology of Th2 immune responses, with a particular focus on the mechanisms and cell types involved in mediating allergic and asthmatic inflammation. 

 

 

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