Associate Professor Severine Navarro received her PhD in Immunology from the Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France. Prior to her PhD, she obtained a Master’s degree in Developmental Biology, Genetics and Immunology from the Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France. She leads the Mucosal Immunology Laboratory at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. She is a Children’s Hospital Foundation Fellow and spokesperson for the Woolworth Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research. The focus of her research is the development of hookworm protein-based therapeutics for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases such as allergy, asthma, inflammatory bowel diseases and mood disorders.