Lucy’s Story
Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
It was a tremendous honour to receive the WiSPP Future Leaders Award in December 2018. This award came at a critical point in my career where I am juggling the demands of maintaining career momentum and raising a young family.
At this point in my career, it is challenging to sustain productive bench lab work, hence I proposed a PhD project for a new student to advance the experimental work.
The WiSPP award allowed me to provide relocation funding for a talented PhD student from Iran. She commenced her research project under my supervision in July 2018 and already has made some exciting discoveries that will be shortly incorporated into a manuscript.
I sincerely thank WiSPP for the opportunity to boost my research output at this critical juncture.
About Lucy
Dr Lucy Sullivan completed her Bachelor of Science (Honours) and PhD at the University of Adelaide in 2002.
Her early research focussed on comparative aspects of lung physiology, during which time she developed a keen interest in immunity and she joined the University of Melbourne in the lab of Professor Andrew Brooks in 2002.
Since then, her studies have focused on understanding the interactions between major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and receptors of the innate and adaptive immune systems.