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Dr Claire Gordon serves as Adjunct Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Curtin Medical School within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. Her research specializations include immunology, with a focus on human tissue-resident T-cells. She received the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2024 round 1 for her project 'Dissecting the heterogeneity of human tissue-resident memory T cells' at Curtin University, with funding amounting to $435,237. Additionally, she was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship through the Peter Doherty Biomedical Early Career Fellowships scheme for her work entitled 'Characterising human tissue resident T-cells in health and autoimmune disease' conducted at Curtin University.
Claire Gordon has co-authored key publications in the fields of infectious diseases and immunology. In 2016, she contributed to the multicenter study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases titled 'Combination of Vancomycin and β-Lactam Therapy for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A Pilot Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.' In 2022, she co-authored the paper 'Captopril, a Renin–Angiotensin System Inhibitor, Attenuates Tumour Progression in the Regenerating Liver Following Partial Hepatectomy,' with affiliation to Curtin Medical School. She maintains appointments as an Infectious Diseases Physician at Austin Health and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne's Doherty Institute. Earlier, in 2012, Dr Gordon served as an Infectious Diseases Registrar at Royal Darwin Hospital and participated in the Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship program.
