Kumar Visvanathan

Professor Kumar Visvanathan is a specialist in infectious diseases and the immunology of the innate immune system with a career spanning over three decades. He is currently the Deputy Chair of Medicine at the University of Melbourne(Eastern Hill Campus), Co-Director of the Immunology Research Centre at St. Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne) as well as a Senior Infectious Diseases Physician at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Following his medical undergraduate degree in 1986, Kumar completed his PhD thesis at the University of NSW and undertook postgraduate work at Rockefeller University in New York. He came back to Australia in 2000 and started his laboratory in innate immunity at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, moving to Monash University and Monash Medical Centre in 2005 before relocating more recently to the University of Melbourne and St. Vincent’s Hospital in 2012.