Benjamin Marsland

Ben Marsland completed his PhD in Immunology at Otago University and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, New Zealand. He then spent 14 years in Switzerland, first at the ETH Zürich and then as a Cloetta Medical Research Fellow at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV). During that period, he received the ETH Latsis Prize, the Leenaards Prize and the ERS COPD Research Award. Since 2018, Ben is a veski innovation fellow, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Professor in the Department of Immunology and Pathology, within the Central Clinical School at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He also maintains a visiting professorship at the University of Lausanne/ CHUV and is the Editor-in-Chief of Mucosal Immunology. The focus of Ben’s lab revolves around the microbiome and metabolites in barrier tissues and how they influence asthma, respiratory viral infections and lung fibrosis.