Rate My Professor Rebecca Vanders

Her career includes NHMRC Early Career Research Fellowships since 2016 and TSANZ Astra Zeneca Early Career Research Fellowships from 2013 to 2015, both within the Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs at the University of Newcastle. She has attracted over $2.6 million in grants, notably as Lead on a NHMRC MRFF project (2025-2029 worth $2,036,673). Key publications feature "Immune checkpoints are suppressed during pregnancy following influenza A virus infection" (2024, American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology), "Inflammatory and antiviral responses to influenza A virus infection are dysregulated in pregnant mice with allergic airway disease" (2023, same journal), "Nasal epithelial cells to assess in vitro immune responses to respiratory virus infection in pregnant women with asthma" (2019, Respiratory Research), "CD8 T cells and dendritic cells: key players in the attenuated maternal immune response to influenza infection" (2015, Journal of Reproductive Immunology), and "Plasmacytoid dendritic cells and CD8 T cells from pregnant women show altered phenotype and function following H1N1/09 infection" (2013, Journal of Infectious Diseases). Vanders has presented at international conferences like the American Thoracic Society, participated in media interviews, and co-supervised a PhD on pregnancy smoke exposure effects.