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1Senior Scientific Editor, JEM, Rockefeller University Press, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Professor Cindy Ma heads the Human Immune Disorders Laboratory at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She is a member of the Garvan Faculty, holds a conjoint appointment with UNSW Sydney (School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health), and is an NHMRC of Australia Investigator Grant Fellow (L1). Her research interests lie in the study of human diseases of the immune system such as primary immunodeficiencies due to inborn errors of immunity (IEI), resulting from disease-causing monogenic germline variants. Another area of research her laboratory is perusing is the pathways that cause severe allergies and atopic diseases such as atopic dermatitis and food anaphylaxis.
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