Danika Hill, Ph.D.
Research Fellow | Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
“Exploiting T Follicular Helper Cells as an Innovative Tool to Discover Targets for Long-Lived Humoral Immunity”
Dr. Hill received the Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research 2020 for: “Exploiting T Follicular Helper Cells as an Innovative Tool to Discover Targets for Long-Lived Humoral Immunity.”
Dr. Hill’s research is focused on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin robust CD4+ T helper cell responses to vaccination and infection in humans; she’s particularly interested in targeting T follicular helper cells to improve vaccine responses, measuring T cell receptor repertoire alterations after vaccination, and developing novel methods to identify antigen-specific CD4+ T cells.
About Danika Hill:
Dr. Danika Hill studied Biomedical Science at the University of Adelaide and completed a Ph.D. at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
In 2015, Dr. Hill joined the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England to conduct postdoctoral research. Since 2018, she has been a Research Fellow in the Department of Immunology and Pathology at Monash University.