Dr Cinzia Cantacessi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance Research Laboratory, James Cook University (Cairns). It has been a big year for Cinzia, being awarded The University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize for Excellenece in a PhD Thesis and and an NHMRC Peter Doherty – Australian Biomedical Fellowship for her research on “Hookworm proteins as novel antiinflammatory therapeutics”. Cinzia speaks to Lisa Jones about her career, her research and her recent successes.
WFP
World Federation of Parasitologists
