Polarity in lymphocytes: Regulation of immune function and cancer.

这位研究员将阐明免疫学中一种基本新现象的机制和后果。这可能对检测和治疗免疫相关疾病的方法产生深远影响，如自身免疫、移植、疫苗接种和免疫缺陷。正在进行的项目和导致我们发现的工作涉及物理学家和生物学家之间的跨学科合作，将前沿激光技术应用于生物学研究。这些技术不仅有助于我们阐明免疫的发展和功能，而且还将用于澳大利亚和海外的其他研究。

The Fellow will elucidate the mechanisms and consequences of a fundamental new phenomenon in immunology. This is likely to profoundly impact upon approaches to detecting and treating immune-related diseases such as autoimmunity, transplantation, vaccination and immunodeficiencies. The ongoing project and the work that led to our discovery involves interdisciplinary collaborations between physicists and biologists to apply frontier laser technologies to biological studies. These technologies will not only facilitate our elucidation of immune development and function, but will also be made available to other research in Australia and overseas.