Aya Taki PhD

Dr Aya C. Taki is a Research Fellow at the Molecular Allergy Research Laboratory. Dr Aya Taki trained in Vaccinology and Infectious diseases. She has been awarded her Ph.D. at the RMIT University, Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis investigated a novel approach to the construction of vaccines. Her research identified that nanoparticles composed of pure protein have great potential as stimulators of immune responses and therefore the new generation of safe and efficacious antigen delivery systems.

Dr. Aya Taki’s current research focuses on the characterization of fish allergens and the improvement of diagnostic capacity for the development of novel in vitro and in vivo IgE-mediated fish allergy tests. Within her current project, she aims to identify novel, clinically relevant allergens from commonly ingested fish species in 100 fish-allergic Australian children by using proteomic and allergenic approaches.