Biography

Prof Walduck is a microbiologist and immunologist with expertise in immunology of infectious diseases and vaccine development. Chronic infections can be “silent” but still result in long term effects on health, including cancer, and even developmental outcomes in children.

Prof Walduck’s research brings together biomedical studies on disease mechanisms that drive the design of new vaccines and drugs against infectious diseases that overwhelmingly affect people in rural and regional areas in Australia, and globally.

She completed a PhD in immunology and vaccine development at the University of Queensland in 1995. Since then, she has worked in industrial R&D in the UK, and prestigious research institutes in Australia and Germany. She has been a researcher and teaching and research academic at Australian universities since 2005. Prof Walduck joined RHRI in 2022.