Rate My Professor Michael Exton

Dr. Michael Exton is an Adjunct Professor of Practice in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a proud alumnus of the university, having earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours in 1993 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology Science in 1996. Exton furthered his academic training with a PhD in Immunology from the University of Essen, Germany. His early research focused on psychoneuroimmunology and neuroscience, investigating brain-immune communication, conditioned immunosuppression, T-cell migration, and physiological responses such as fever and arousal states. Key publications from this period include "Conditioning in the rat: an in vivo model to investigate the molecular mechanisms and clinical implications of brain-immune communication" (Immunological Reviews, 2001), "Migration of naive, effector and memory T cells: implications for the regulation of immune responses" (Immunological Reviews, 2001), "Adenovirus-mediated Bcl-2 gene transfer inhibits apoptosis and promotes survival of allogeneic transplanted hepatocytes" (Surgery, 2001), "Kupffer cells of cirrhotic rat livers sensitize colon cancer cells to Fas-mediated apoptosis" (British Journal of Cancer, 2001), and "Conditioned immunosuppression makes subtherapeutic cyclosporin effective via splenic innervation" (American Journal of Physiology, 1998).