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Franca Ronchese

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Franca Ronchese
Ronchese in 2023
Born
Italy
Alma materUniversity of Padua
SpouseGraham Le Gros
AwardsBurnet Oration
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
InstitutionsNational Institutes of Health
Basel Institute for Immunology
Malaghan Institute
Doctoral studentsDianne Sika-Paotonu[1]

Franca Ronchese is an Italian-New Zealand immunologist. She currently leads the immune cell biology programme at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research in Wellington, New Zealand and is a research professor at Victoria University of Wellington.[2]

Career

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After a PhD at the University of Padua, Italy, Ronchese worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ronald Germain at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. After her postdoctoral studies, she joined the Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland, where she became interested in antigen presentation by dendritic cells in vivo. In 1994, Ronchese moved to New Zealand to establish her research programme at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, with a focus on developing immune therapies for cancer and allergies. Her current research focuses on dendritic cells[3] (a kind of immune cell),[2] and includes allergic response work.[4][5][6]

In 2012, Ronchese was a finalist in the NEXT Woman of the Year.[7] In 2018, she was invited to give the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology's Burnet Oration.[8]

Personal life

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Ronchese is married to Graham Le Gros, research director of the Malaghan Institute.[9]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ Sika-Paotonu, Dianne (1 January 2014). Increasing the potency of dendritic cell based vaccines for the treatment of cancer (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Franca Ronchese". Malaghan. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Professor Franca Ronchese | Health Research Council". Hrc.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Franca Ronchese - The latest science on allergic reactions". RNZ. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  5. ^ "New Zealand scientific breakthrough could provide new allergy, asthma treatments". The New Zealand Herald. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  6. ^ "City scientists patent asthma breakthrough". Stuff.co.nz. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  7. ^ Professor Franca Ronchese. "Is Franca Ronchese the NEXT Woman of the Year 2012?". Malaghan. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  8. ^ Media, Gloss Creative. "The Burnet Oration | Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology | The premier scientific society for Immunology research in Australia and New Zealand". www.immunology.org.au. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Finding a cancer cure is his holy grail". Stuff.co.nz. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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