Danika L Hill Lorne Infection and Immunity 2021

Danika L Hill

Danika Hill's is currently a Group Leader at Monash University's Department of Immunology and Pathology, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Hill’s research is focussed on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin robust CD4+ T helper cell responses to vaccination and infection in humans, with particular interests in T follicular helper cells and the germinal centre response. Danika completed a PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, undertook a Postdoc at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, before joining Monash University in 2020. Dr Hill is studying T and B cell responses to Group A Streptococcus in a human infectious challenge model (in collaboration with Prof Andrew Steer), supported by the Michelson Prize from the Human Vaccines Project and a NHMRC Early Career Fellowship.