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A/Prof Catherine Satzke

A/Prof Catherine Satzke

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Role Group Leader/Principal Research Fellow

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Available for student supervision
A/Prof Satzke obtained her PhD in molecular microbiology from The University of Melbourne in 2007. She then established a microbiological research laboratory at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute within the Pneumococcal Research Group led by Prof Kim Mulholland.

A/Prof Satzke led a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which involved over 20 international collaborators. She has since attracted further funds to establish two serotype reference centres, facilitating vaccine impact studies in Asia. She led the update of World Health Organization (WHO) standards for pneumococcal carriage studies and made important contributions to studies in Fiji, leading to vaccination introduction.

A/Prof Satzke has been an investigator on grants totalling $39.7 million, notably $3.1 million as co-principal investigator on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant. A/Prof Satzke received the inaugural veski inspiring women fellowship (2015-), the prestigious international Robert Austrian Research award (2012), has been an invited speaker at six international conferences and co-organised a WHO meeting.

A/Prof Satzke has published in journals including PLOS Medicine, Lancet, Vaccine and PLOS Pathogens. She currently supervises two post-doctoral researchers, five research assistants, one administrator, two PhD and one Honours student, and regularly hosts Masters students. A/Prof Satzke was named Murdoch Childrens' supervisor of the year in 2013.
A/Prof Satzke obtained her PhD in molecular microbiology from The University of Melbourne in 2007. She then established a microbiological research laboratory at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute within the Pneumococcal Research Group led by...
A/Prof Satzke obtained her PhD in molecular microbiology from The University of Melbourne in 2007. She then established a microbiological research laboratory at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute within the Pneumococcal Research Group led by Prof Kim Mulholland.

A/Prof Satzke led a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which involved over 20 international collaborators. She has since attracted further funds to establish two serotype reference centres, facilitating vaccine impact studies in Asia. She led the update of World Health Organization (WHO) standards for pneumococcal carriage studies and made important contributions to studies in Fiji, leading to vaccination introduction.

A/Prof Satzke has been an investigator on grants totalling $39.7 million, notably $3.1 million as co-principal investigator on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant. A/Prof Satzke received the inaugural veski inspiring women fellowship (2015-), the prestigious international Robert Austrian Research award (2012), has been an invited speaker at six international conferences and co-organised a WHO meeting.

A/Prof Satzke has published in journals including PLOS Medicine, Lancet, Vaccine and PLOS Pathogens. She currently supervises two post-doctoral researchers, five research assistants, one administrator, two PhD and one Honours student, and regularly hosts Masters students. A/Prof Satzke was named Murdoch Childrens' supervisor of the year in 2013.

Top Publications

  • Manna, S, Spry, L, Wee-Hee, A, Ortika, BD, Boelsen, LK, Batinovic, S, Mazarakis, N, Ford, RL, Lo, SW, Bentley, SD, et al. Variants of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 14 from Papua New Guinea with the Potential to Be Mistyped and Escape Vaccine-Induced Protection. e01524 -e01522 2022
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  • Qian, G, Toizumi, M, Clifford, S, Le, LT, Papastylianou, T, Satzke, C, Quilty, B, Iwasaki, C, Kitamura, N, Takegata, M, et al. Association of pneumococcal carriage in infants with the risk of carriage among their contacts in Nha Trang, Vietnam: A nested cross-sectional survey. PLOS Medicine 19(5) : e1004016 2022
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  • Nation, ML, Manna, S, Tran, HP, Nguyen, CD, Le Thi Tuong Vy, , Uyen, DY, Phuong, TL, Dai, VTT, Ortika, BD, Wee-Hee, AC, et al. Impact of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions on pneumococcal carriage prevalence and density in Vietnam. 2022
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  • Turner, P, Sá-Leão, R, Greenhill, A, Leach, A, Satzke, C. World Health Organization (WHO) standard methods for pneumococcal carriage studies.. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022
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  • Blyth, CC, Britton, KJ, Nguyen, CD, Sapura, J, Kave, J, Nivio, B, Chan, J, Satzke, C, Ford, R, Kirarock, W, et al. Effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against hypoxic pneumonia and hospitalisation in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: An observational cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 22: 100432 2022
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