John Lee
@JohnDGLee
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Group Leader @UQMedicine @Neuroimmunomics investigating the role of our immune system in brain diseases 🧠
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined June 2017
@Cedric_Cui @alanajulianisya @marallag_nina @IntlComplement Our wonderful students, Titaya Lerskiatiphanich, @marallag_nina, @grace_risby, and @alanajulianisya with their posters. Definitely worth comple-menting! 😎 #ICW2025 @IntlComplement
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Our post-doc @Cedric_Cui, and students @alanajulianisya @marallag_nina and Austin Read had the opportunity to present their work in some oral presentations 🙌 #ICW2025 @IntlComplement
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We had some great representation with @neurocomplement at the International Complement Workshop 2025! #ICW2025 @IntlComplement
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Excited to announce our group leader @JohnDGLee has been awarded the Ross Maclean Senior Research Fellowship at @QldBrainInst! We are so excited to continue our research on #MotorNeuronDisease at #QBI - read more👇🏻 https://t.co/EZFHb3ZE25
#MND #UQ @UQ_News
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Congratulations to Dr. John Lee and Prof. Simon J. Clark recipients of the 2025 Svar Complement Excellence Award, presented at the International Complement Workshop in Brisbane #ComplementSystem #ICW2025 #ComplementingLifeScience #ComplementExcellenceAward
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Our group leader @JohnDGLee had the opportunity to present at @QldBrainInst yesterday 🙌 The seminar was a short (but sweet!) summary on our research in #MotorNeuroneDisease & our lab’s vision. Check out this lovely slide summarising our work - and the people behind it👇
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🚨 New publication alert! Our latest study shows IL-6 trans-signalling drives TDP-43–induced inflammation in MND across both central and peripheral immune cells. 💡 Highlights a promising therapeutic target Read: https://t.co/N5WR90Ai7e
#MND #ALS @UQMedicine @FightMND
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🎉 Another outstanding achievement! Our brilliant PhD student, Alana @alanajulianisya, has been recognised with the Best Poster Award at the Neuroimmunology Australia Workshop. Keep up the exceptional work on MND, Alana! 👏 #NeuroimmunologyAustralia @NeuroimmOZ #MNDResearch
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Our team “Johnny Walker 4 MND Trentment” walking in support of @MNDQueensland today. A great crowd, rallying behind a vital cause! 💙 #WalkToDefeatMND #MND #ALS @UQMedicine
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🎉 Exciting start to 2025! Huge congratulations to our talented PhD student, Alana Julianisya, for winning the International Complement Society @intlcomplement Early Career Cover Image Award! 🏆 Check out the stunning cover image featuring in our profile! 📸#ResearchExcellence
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Speakers Posted: 17th Int'l Conference on #ComplementTherapeutics held in #Sissi, #Crete, #Greece from May 10-15, 2025 @KalimeraKriti organized by @LambrisJD @dmastellos @roumenina
https://t.co/72C0EufeFY
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This year's Aegean Conference on Complement Therapeutics features a speaker roster that promises to engage the audience, fostering a productive scientific debate and cross-pollination of ideas across diverse disciplines. A great mix of leading experts and emerging talent in
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Our PhD candidate Titaya presenting at last month’s UQ MND Collective Journal Club. Some thoughtful discussions about peripheral immune cells and their potential involvement in MND. Many thanks to @AndrewTosolini for organising 🙌. #MND #ALS
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Congratulations to our group leader @JohnDGLee for receiving the @FightMND Bill Guest mid-career fellowship. Excited for the next 4 years ahead! 🎉👏 #MND #ALS
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3/3 Our data support the outstanding work of @LionakisLab Could this cell-intrinsic complement response be harnessed using therapeutics to fight infection? We are embarking on this question now @JohnDGLee @JennyNFung @UQMedicine
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2/3 Xaria demonstrates human macrophages respond bidirectionally to C5a in synergy with a multitude of pathogen molecular triggers. Surprisingly, non TLR PRRs show the greatest enhancement of cytokine release with C5a receptor activation (eg. Dectin-1 / cGAS-STING)
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1/3 Excited to share our latest research by the talented Dr Xaria Li on cell-intrinsic C5a in pathogen sensing and fungal killing. Out now in PNAS @PNASNews
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Great to be attending the International Complement Workshop #ICW2023 in Newcastle upon Tyne to hear about the great advances in complement research #complementbiology Opening Teaching Day off to a good start. Congrats to all the organisers!
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Dr John Lee @JohnDGLee @neurocomplement is presenting his work on the yin and yang of the complement C3a and C5a in ALS @ISN_society Porto
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A very sad loss of a giant of MND research https://t.co/3MGw1T3cx2
abc.net.au
The molecular biologist spent more than a decade researching a cure for motor neurone disease (MND) following the deaths of four members of his family.
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