Fabienne Brilot
University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Fabienne Brilot obtained her PhD
in Belgium and at the JD Gladstone Institutes, UCSF, USA. She then became
postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Professor Christian Munz (currently
located at the University of Zurich, Switzerland) at the Browne Center for
Immunology and Immune Diseases headed by late Professor Ralph Steinman (Nobel
Prize for Medicine 2011) at the Rockefeller University, USA. She was recruited
at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney in 2007 where she started the
Brain Autoimmunity group.
Fabienne is currently Principal Research Fellow and Professor of
Neuroimmunology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests
are the discovery of biomarkers informing diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment
of brain immune-mediated diseases including brain demyelination and autoimmune
neurological diseases.
She is a member of ISNI International Advisory Board, and chairs
the ISNI We Are
Neuroimmunology mid-career award
committee. She was the scientific chair of the 14th ISNI Congress (Australia, 2018), and the co-convenor of the 3rdAsia-Pacific
School of Neuroimmunology (Sydney, 2023). She is the President of
Neuroimmunology Australia. She is an editorial board member and a reviewer for
many journals in the field of neuroimmunology.