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Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay PhD

Nutrition, Immunology and Microbiology
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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Charles Mackay did his Ph.D at Melbourne University, and worked at the Basel Institute for Immunology, LeukoSite Inc. and Millennium Therapeutics in Boston USA, and Garvan Institute in Sydney, before moving to Monash University in mid 2009. Charles Mackay is accomplished in the fields of inflammation, GPCR biology, cell migration and cytokine biology.

Charles Mackay is the leading advocate of a new hypothesis to explain many ‘western lifestyle' diseases - that diet, gut microbes and their metabolites are responsible. He is commercializing a new ‘nutraceutical’ approach for the treatment of many human diseases. Charles has produced many monoclonal antibodies over the course of his career, including to the HIV co-receptors CCR5 and CCR3. His other skills include gene transcript profiling, and numerous models of inflammation- asthma, arthritis, type 1 diabetes, colitis, and others.
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