DrMalcolm Starkey

Dr Malcolm Starkey is the leader of the Urinary Tract Health Research Program based at The Charles Perkins Centre and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences at The University of Sydney. He is a adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University where he is the Founding Director of the Bladder and Kidney Health Discovery Program that provides a multidisciplinary platform to address the unmet need for new treatments and diagnostics for many debilitating urinary tract conditions. Dr Starkey is a member of the Urinary Tract Infection Global Alliance and Monash Women's Health Alliance. He is also the lead scientific adviser to Chronic UTI Australia and a key opinion leader to Travere Therapeutics. 

Dr Starkey's team studies urinary tract infections and rare genetic causes of kidney stone formation. His team is interested in how microbial challenges predispose to chronic diseases with a specific emphasis on mucosal and type 2 immunity. 

Dr Starkey completed his PhD in Immunology and Microbiology at The University of Newcastle, Australia. He then undertook post-doctoral training at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, before returning to Australia as a National Health Medical Research Council (2014-17) and Australian Research Council (2018-20) fellow investigating type 2 immunity in respiratory diseases. He opened his independent laboratory in the Department of Immunology at Monash University in 2020, lauching his urinary tract health program.