Natalie Borg

I obtained my Ph.D from the University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology while working remotely at CSIRO. Following this I was a post-doc at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University, and began pursuing her own research vision as a laboratory head within the same department. I subsequently moved to RMIT University to pursue my academic and translational research programs. During my career I have received prestigious fellowships including an NHMRC Peter Doherty fellowship, an NHMRC Career Development Award, a L'Oreal for Women in Science Fellowship and an ARC Future Fellowship. I am currently an RMIT Senior Research Translation Fellow and head of the Immunity and Immune Evasion Laboratory. My research is focused on understanding innate immunity, and how it is manipulated by microbes. This knowledge is used to devise new ways to combat microbial infections and drives my drug discovery programs. My academic research has been continually funded by major competitive national fellowships, philanthropic funding and grants from the ARC and NHMRC and the US Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, totalling $3.65 million. I have published research in prestigious journals, including Nature, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, ACS Nano and Trends in Microbiology. My drug discovery programs have attracted >$1.16 million and led to the assembly of multidisciplinary teams, as well as a licence agreement.

Laboratory website: rmit.edu.au/natalieborg-lab