Malcolm R Starkey 16th Lorne Infection and Immunity 2026

Malcolm R Starkey

Malcolm completed his PhD in Immunology and Microbiology at The University of Newcastle, Australia. He then undertook short-term post-doctoral training at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, before returning to Australia as a National Health Medical Research Council Early Career Fellow (2014-17) and subsequently an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow (2018-20). He was recruited to Monash in July 2020 to establish his independent laboratory. Malcolm currently leads the Urinary Tract Immunology & Microbiology Research Group in the Department of Immunology at the School of Translational Medicine at Monash University. He is also the Founding Director of the Bladder and Kidney Health Discovery Program at the Alfred Research Alliance. Malcolm’s team studies the immune system in the urinary tract. The primary interest of his research team is how microbial challenges predispose to chronic diseases with a specific focus on mucosal cytokines and type 2 immunity to develop immunotherapies for difficult-to-treat bacterial infections.