Marcel Nold

Monash University

Professor Marcel F. Nold is a clinician-scientist with appointments as consultant neonatal paediatrician at Monash Children’s Hospital and Professor of Paediatric Immunology at Monash University’s Department of Paediatrics and the Hudson Institute. Marcel is passionate about his research making a meaningful difference to his patients and their families. Therefore, aiming to lay the foundations and then establish much-needed new therapies, he employs bedside-to-bench-and-back approaches to explore the molecular mechanisms underpinning severe illnesses that affect infants and children such as the cardiopulmonary diseases bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and BPD-associated pulmonary hypertension, necrotising enterocolitis of the intestine and diffuse white matter injury of the brain. In addition to early life-diseases, his work in translational molecular medicine aspires to develop and advance novel cytokine-based therapeutics towards clinical application, thus bringing urgently needed relief to paediatric and adult patients with autoinflammatory and autoimmune illnesses such as systemic lupus erythematosus as well as viral illnesses such as influenza and Covid-19.