Jayne S Sutherland

Jayne S Sutherland

Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford Hospital, 80 Seymour Street, Hartford, CT 06102, USA

Biography
Dr Jayne Sutherland spent her PhD and early post-doctoral career in Australia and London; she changed research objectives from cancer to TB/infectious diseases when she moved to The Gambia in 2006. Jayne also has a background in both murine and clinical immunology, strongly developed during a multi-site sub-Saharan Africa study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation aimed at determining biomarkers for protective immunity to TB.
Research Interest
Jayne’s research interest is the immunology of infectious diseases, with a particular focus on tuberculosis (TB). She heads the TB Immunology laboratory and the TB case-contact platform at the MRC Unit, which provides a unique opportunity for multi-disciplinary analysis of TB.