Anne Brüstle is a group leader in the Division of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University in Canberra.

Her work centres around the autoimmune component of Multiple Sclerosis, the most common neurodegenerative condition in young adults. Her group investigates key immune populations driving the pathogenesis of this devastating condition using laboratory model systems to understand the underlying biological principals. In collaboration with diverse industrial partners her group further evaluates potential new targets for conceptually novel MS treatments and deciphers their biological mechanisms in neuroinflammation. In 2018 she was awarded the Young Tall Poppy Award for her work for and with the MS community and she holds a senior research fellowship from MS Australia. She further is the MS research lead and chair of “Our Health in Our Hands” an transdisciplinary program to develop personalised monitoring and managing approaches for chronic autoimmune conditions such as MS and diabetes.

Anne completed her PhD in Human Biology 2008 at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany. She was recruited to ANU in mid 2014, after being a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada. Besides her research and MS community engagement she currently is Associate Dean HDR for the College of Health and Medicine.

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