Jean Tan PhD

Dr. Jean Tan is a Research Fellow in the Martino lab at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University focusing on the anti-inflammatory and pro-regenerative roles of immune cells particularly Tregs in various models of wound healing.

Dr. Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Biomedical Science from LaTrobe University in 2009. In 2010, she undertook a Master’s degree at Monash University focusing on human amnion epithelial cells (hAECs) in modulating macrophage phenotype and behavior during repair of lung fibrosis before pursuing her PhD in 2012 under the supervision of A/Prof. Rebecca Lim and Prof. Euan Wallace.

She was awarded her doctorate in July 2016 and pursued her first postdoctoral position at The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research where she continued her work investigating the effects of hAECs-derived secretome on immunological responses during repair and regeneration of bleomycin-induced interstitial lung inflammation and fibrosis.

In late 2017, Dr. Tan continued her scientific journey as a postdoctoral researcher in the Martino lab in hopes of bringing her skills and knowledge together to develop novel immune cell-based therapeutics for tissue regeneration.