Dr Kirsten Fairfax

Kirsten is the Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision/Alex Gadomski Fellow and senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania. She leads a small team working on the immunology and genetics underpinning Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes and haematopoiesis at the School of Medicine at UTAS, as well as teaching into second and third year BioMedicine. Her research work focusses on using molecular biology techniques such as single-cell RNA sequencing and CRISPR to understand more about the development of blood cells, and to generate new potential therapeutics.