Professor Wolfgang Weninger
Centenary’s resident immune system imager and dermatologist, Professor Wolfgang Weninger, has played a key role in proposing a new model of how the enforcer cells (T cells) of our immune system search for a parasitic pathogen in the brain.
And it turns out that T cells on the prowl have much in common with marine predators, such as tuna and sharks, as to how they track down their prey.
It’s part of a long-standing collaboration with researchers in the US. The work has just been published in the top-ranking science journal Nature and should give us a better handle on how to support the body’s defences against disease.
