Dr Kumar Visvanathan

MIIN Member

Department of Medicine
Monash Medical Centre
kumar.visvanathan@med.monash.edu.au

Research Activities:

Clinical, translational research involving human disease
Diseases include sepsis, hepatitis B and C, mycobacterial infection and rotavirus

Techniques/Expertise:

Flow cytometry
TLR expression
Cell separation
Clinical samples
Phosphokinase expression ex vivo

Collaborations:

Prof Stephen Locarnini
Dr Ashley Mansell
Dr Grant Jenkin
Prof John Hamilton and Dr Andrew Cook
Prof Stephen Riordan
Dr Ian Wooley

Animal Disease Models:

Murine models of sepsis
Models of rotavirus infection

Genetically Modified Animals:

TLR KO mice and Myd88 KO mice

Lab Group Personnel:

Narelle Skinner
Vesna Markovska
Dilip Ratnam