Women Speakers Database
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Name
Debbie Watson -
Email
dwatson@uow.edu.au -
Country/Region
Australia -
Institute
University of Wollongong -
Career Stage
Tenured Faculty -
Website
https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/debbie_watson -
Research Interests
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Profile
I am a group leader of the Genetics and Immunology Research Laboratory (GIRL) at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) and a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health at the University of Wollongong.
My background is in transplantation and I currently work on strategies to prevent graft-versus-host disease, a major complication following donor stem cell transplantation for people with blood cancer.
Our group develops strategies to prevent graft-versus-host disease using immune cell depletions strategies and by targeting immune cell signaling pathways in preclinical models.