Dr. Di YU (Australia)

Di Yu carried out doctoral study with Dr. Carola G. Vinuesa and Professor Christopher C. Goodnow in the John Curtin School of Medical Research, where he investigated the regulation of T-cell help to B cells in germinal centres. He received his Ph.D. from the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) in 2007. He subsequently carried out his postdoctoral research with Professor Charles R. Mackay at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Sydney, Australia), focusing on the differentiation and function of follicular helper T cells. In 2010, he was selected as Monash Fellow and appointed as Senior Research Fellow by Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). His group studies the regulation of B- and T-cell differentiation and function, aiming to promote molecular immunotherapy.

He was awarded Franker Fenner Medal and Dewar Milne Prize for Immunology by the Australian National University in 2008. He is also the recipient of New Investigator Award from Australasian Society for Immunology in 2006 and Research Awardl from Australian Society for Medical Research in 2007.