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Dr. Carly Whyte

Dr. Carly Whyte

Dr. Carly Whyte is a research immunologist with expertise in the cellular mechanisms underlying immune-mediated diseases. Her research focuses on understanding how the immune system detects and combats cancer, with the ultimate aim of developing personalised immunotherapeutic strategies and improving patient outcomes.

Carly holds a PhD in Immunology from the University of Adelaide and undertook postdoctoral training at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK and as a Research Associate at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Here, she made discoveries in cytokine signalling, elucidating novel mechanisms underlying the adverse effects of IL-2 therapy and contributing to pioneering research on T cell regulation in tissues.

She returned to Australia as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Cancer Biology (University of South Australia and SA Pathology), where she is supported by a Junior Fellowship from the Passe and Williams Foundation. Carly has an excellent track record relative to her career stage, with >20 peer-reviewed publications in internationally renowned journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Immunology, and has received numerous awards for her research, including the New Investigator Award from the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology.

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Other GPRWMF awards received by awardee Year
Junior FellowshipDefining the therapeutic potential of eosinophils in head and neck cancer2022
Conjoint GrantOvercoming immune exhaustion in recurrent head and neck cancer2025
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