Severine Navarro

Dr Severine Navarro has been appointed as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, in the laboratory of Professor Alex Loukas. The focus of her research project is the development of hookworm protein-based therapeutics for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases such as allergic asthma, inflammatory bowel diseases and Celiac disease. She has obtained her PhD with high honors in 2011 at the Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France where she used different approaches to induce and recruit regulatory T cells to the airways and suppress allergic inflammation.

Prior to her PhD, she obtained a Master's degree in Developmental Biology, Genetics and Immunology from the Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France and based her thesis on the visualisation in vivo of peptide/MHC II complexes at the surface of antigen presenting cells. She obtained before that a bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology and a second one in General Biology from the Florida Institute of Technology, USA.