DrKavitha Gowrishankar
Senior Lecturer - Immunology
Faculty of Medicine and Health
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- Senior Lecturer - ImmunologyFaculty of Medicine and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Adoptive cell therapy
- CAR T-cells; for- Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma
- CAR T-cells for paediatric solid tumours- Sarcoma, Brain cancer
- T cell receptors, transgenic T cell receptors
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTFurther development of the interferon-CAR T cell strategy for reducing latent HIV infectionDepartment of Health and Aged Care (Federal)8 Mar 2024People funded by this grant:
- Cunningham AT,
- Gowrishankar K,
- Nasr N,
- Micklethwaite K,
- Duette G
- GRANTTargeting latent HIV by novel combination immunotherapy with IFN8 and CAR T-cellsDepartment of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2024People funded by this grant:
- Duette G,
- Micklethwaite K,
- Cunningham AT,
- Gowrishankar K,
- Nasr N
- GRANTThe E2CAR Trial:A Phase I clinical trial to evaluate administration of EphA2 targeted CAR T cells to children with sarcoma.Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2029People funded by this grant:
- Cain L,
- McCowage G,
- Karpelowsky J,
- Shaw P,
- Bateman C
- GRANTFurther development of interferon/CAR T cell therapy as a novel shock and kill strategy to eliminate the latent HIV reservoir in CD4 T cellsAustralian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research (ACH2)1 Jan 2022People funded by this grant:
- Micklethwaite K,
- Nasr N,
- Gowrishankar K,
- Cunningham AT
- GRANTA novel strategy for eradication of HIV using a combination of interferon activation of latently infected CD4 T cells and their targeting by TanCAR T cellsAustralian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research (ACH2)1 Jan 2021People funded by this grant:
- Nasr N,
- Gowrishankar K,
- Cunningham AT,
- Micklethwaite K
- GRANTDevelopment of dual specific CAR T cell therapy after Interferon alpha pretreatment to eliminate the latent HIV-CD4 T cell reservoirAustralian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research (ACH2)1 Jan 2021People funded by this grant:
- Gowrishankar K,
- Nasr N,
- Micklethwaite K,
- Cunningham AT
- GRANTA new strategy for eradication of HIV using a combination of interferon and CAR T cellsAustralian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research (ACH2)1 Jan 2020People funded by this grant:
- Cunningham AT,
- Purcell D,
- Nasr N,
- Gowrishankar K,
- Micklethwaite K
- GRANTOptimisation of Transposon Tools for the Clinical Production of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cellsCancer Council NSW1 Jan 2017People funded by this grant:
- Micklethwaite K,
- Bendall L,
- Gowrishankar K,
- Gottlieb D