During injury or infection, our body’s immune system protects us by launching inflammation.
But uncontrolled inflammation drives diseases such as gout, diabetes, neurodegenerative disease and cancer. Learn more about our current research.
The Inflammasome Lab is defining the molecular and cellular processes of inflammation. We seek to unravel the secrets of inflammasomes – protein complexes at the heart of inflammation and disease – to allow for new therapies to fight human diseases. Learn more about us.
Our research findings have been published in top journals including Science Immunology, Nature Medicine, Journal of Experimental Medicine and Cell Reports. Read more about our research discoveries and see a complete list of publications from the lab.
OUR RESEARCH PROJECTS
An overview of current projects in the lab
ABOUT US
A little bit more about our lab...
Our team
Our team is very international, with 10 researchers from 8 different countries around the world.
Collaborations
We collaborate with researchers from The University of Queensland, as well as other national and international teams.
Conferences and seminars
We regularly present our research findings at major meetings and conferences around the world. See the blog for upcoming meetings.
Multiple techniques
We use cutting-edge techniques in molecular, cellular and in vivo biology, as well as microbiology and genetics.
MEET OUR RESEARCHERS
Our team, headed by Associate Professor Kate Schroder, is made up of four postdoctoral researchers, two research assistants, and three PhD students.
We are a part of the Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine division of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland.
Associate Professor Kate Schroder is an NHMRC RD Wright Fellow and Affiliated Senior Lecturer of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Faculty of Science.
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