Core expertise
Infection discovery
Biography
Diana Hansen is a professor of microbiology and co-head of the Infection Discovery Program at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute. Her main current research focuses on finding solutions to tackle two devastating mosquito-borne infectious diseases, malaria and dengue fever, which together account for 600 million clinical cases worldwide annually.
In 2020, Diana also turned into COVID-19 research, setting up clinical studies in Australia and overseas. Her main interests include understanding mechanisms regulating pathogenesis and induction of immunity to these infectious diseases, and she’s pursuing those goals using pre-clinical infection models, as well as applying systems immunology approaches to clinical studies in endemic areas.
