About
Associate Professor Antiopi Varelias leads the Transplantation Immunology laboratory at QIMR Berghofer.
Associate Professor Antiopi was awarded her PhD from The University of Adelaide and held several post-doctoral positions within the University of Adelaide’s Department of Surgery and the Department of Haematology/Oncology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide.
She relocated to Brisbane in 2008 to join the Bone Marrow Transplantation laboratory at QIMR. This was a highly productive period in her career with many notable publications in top-tier journals.
Whilst at QIMR Berghofer, her research has focused on understanding the immunological mechanisms that underpin major complications that often occur after stem cell transplantation, the “gold standard” treatment option for haematological malignancies. Although preclinical models of disease are central to her research, she has contributed to the translation of basic research findings into clinical trials.
She has been the recipient of competitive research funding to investigate and validate new therapeutic pathways/targets, and evaluate new diagnostics to improve transplant outcome for patients.