Alison Venn PhD

Professor Alison Venn completed her PhD in immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research in the UK. Following postdoctoral research in malaria immunology at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, she trained as an epidemiologist and spent ten years doing research on women's reproductive health at La Trobe University. Since joining the Menzies Institute for Medical Research in 2000 she has broadened her research interests to cover a range of chronic diseases.