Carola Garcia de Vinuesa

Carola Garcia de Vinuesa FAA FAHMS is a Professor and Head of the Department of Pathogens and Immunity at the College of Medicine at the Australian National University.

Education and career

Vinuesa was born in Spain where she obtained a Bachelor of Medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She completed clinical training in the United Kingdom and in 2000 was awarded a PhD in Immunology by the University of Birmingham. In 2001, she received a Wellcome Trust International Travelling Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at The John Curtin School for Medical Research at the Australian National University.[1]

Awards and recognition

She was the 2008 winner of the Australian Science Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year[2] and the 2009 winner of the Australian Academy of Science's Gottschalk Medal for her research uncovering the origins of autoimmune diseases.[3] In 2015, she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science[4] and in October 2020 she became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.[5]

References
  1. Director (Research Services Division). "Professor Carola Garcia de Vinuesa". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  2. "Professor Carola Garcia de Vinuesa". Australian National University. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. 2009 awardees, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 23 March 2016.
  4. "Carola Vinuesa". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  5. "Academy elects 28 new Fellows". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.


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