Dr Elizabeth Aitken obtained her PhD ‘Malaria in Pregnancy: Immunity and a mechanism for low birth weight babies’ at the University of Melbourne. Following this she worked briefly on immunity to malaria at the PNG-IMR and then at the University of Edinburgh.
From 2012-2014 she worked at the University of Sao Paulo, looking pulmonary malaria and also Plasmodium spp. infection in wild monkeys. In 2014 Elizabeth started work with the Rogerson Lab at the University of Melbournea and she is currently investigating the acquired immune response to malaria in pregnancy.
Elizabeth has been working on malaria since 2006 and she has published a number of peer reviewed research articles in this field. In 2011 she was the recipient of an Endeavour Research Fellowship as part of the Endeavour Awards scheme and then in 2012 she was awarded a Post-doctoral research Fellowship by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
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FEATURED Journal article
Antibody effector functions in malaria and other parasitic diseases: a few needles and many haystacks
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Melbourne Research Scholarship
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Positions
Research Fellow
Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital
Assoc Lecturer / Lecturer - Microbiology
Microbiology And Immunology
Ordinary Member
Australian Society for Parasitology
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy
The University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (Hons)
University of Melbourne