Dr Nicole Messina
Dr Nicole Messina
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Role
Team Leader / Senior Research Officer
Research area
Infection, Immunity and Global Health
Group
Infectious Diseases
Contact
Available for student supervision
Dr Messina is a Team Leader in the MCRI Infectious Diseases research group where she currently leads the immunology research program with a focus on the clinical and immunological off-target effects of vaccines. Dr Messina completed her PhD at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre investigating crosstalk in cytokine signalling pathways and the role of interferon signalling pathways in tumour immunosurveillance. Her previous research has also included investigating the role of cytokine response pathways in regulatory T cell development and function. Dr Messina co-supervises four PhD students, holds an Honorary Research Fellow appointment with the University of Melbourne and is a member of the Melbourne Children's Graduate Research Committee and MCRI animal ethics committee.
Dr Messina is a Team Leader in the MCRI Infectious Diseases research group where she currently leads the immunology research program with a focus on the clinical and immunological off-target effects of vaccines. Dr Messina completed her PhD at the...
Dr Messina is a Team Leader in the MCRI Infectious Diseases research group where she currently leads the immunology research program with a focus on the clinical and immunological off-target effects of vaccines. Dr Messina completed her PhD at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre investigating crosstalk in cytokine signalling pathways and the role of interferon signalling pathways in tumour immunosurveillance. Her previous research has also included investigating the role of cytokine response pathways in regulatory T cell development and function. Dr Messina co-supervises four PhD students, holds an Honorary Research Fellow appointment with the University of Melbourne and is a member of the Melbourne Children's Graduate Research Committee and MCRI animal ethics committee.
Top Publications
- Stevens, NE, Ryan, FJ, Messina, NL, Blake, SJ, Norton, TS, Germano, S, James, J, Eden, GL, Tee, YC, Lynn, MA, et al. No evidence of durable trained immunity after two doses of adenovirus-vectored or mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.. J Clin Invest 2023 view publication
- Messina, NL, Sperotto, MG, Puga, MAM, da Silva, PV, de Oliveira, RD, Moore, CL, Pittet, LF, Jamieson, T, Dalcolmo, M, dos Santos, G, et al. Impact of vaccine platform and BCG vaccination on antibody responses to COVID-19 vaccination. Frontiers in Immunology 14: 1172851 2023 view publication
- Leo, S, Cetiner, OF, Pittet, LF, Messina, NL, Jakob, W, Falquet, L, Curtis, N, Zimmermann, P. Metagenomics analysis of the neonatal intestinal resistome. Frontiers in Pediatrics 11: 1169651 2023 view publication
- Pittet, LF, Messina, NL, Orsini, F, Moore, CL, Abruzzo, V, Barry, S, Bonnici, R, Bonten, M, Campbell, J, Croda, J, et al. Randomized Trial of BCG Vaccine to Protect against Covid-19 in Health Care Workers. New England Journal of Medicine 388(17) : 1582 -1596 2023 view publication
- Villanueva, P, Crawford, NW, Croda, MG, Collopy, S, Jardim, BA, de Almeida Pinto Jardim, T, Manning, L, Lucas, M, Marshall, H, Prat-Aymerich, C, et al. Factors influencing scar formation following Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination. Heliyon 9(4) : e15241 2023 view publication
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