Dr Linda Reiling
Senior Research Officer, Malaria Research: Immunity, Vaccines and New Therapies
Working groups
Background
Linda completed her PhD in 2005 at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, investigating the role of heat shock proteins in Leishmania infections. She then joined Professor James Beeson's lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research as a postdoctoral scientist before moving to the Burnet Institute in 2011 with the rest of the group. Her work is focused on the role of invasion ligands and surface antigens of merozoites as targets of protective antibodies in acquired immunity against both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria. Recent projects have focused on investigating the role of complement-activating antibodies in protective immunity and the identification of correlates of protection to inform vaccine development. She is also involved in projects aiming at identifying targets of functional antibodies against transmission-stage parasites that can interrupt the transmission to the mosquito vector or the subsequent development in the mosquito.
Qualifications
- 2005: PhD, University of Hamburg, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Appointments
- 2021: Honorary Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne;
- 2020: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Department of Immunology, Monash University;
- 2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre for Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination
Awards
- 2025: Biomedical Research Travel Fellowship
Burnet publications
View 33 morePlasmodium falciparum reticulocyte-binding homologues are targets of human inhibitory antibodies and play a role in immune evasion
Frontiers in Immunology
Linda Reiling et al
Editorial: Advances on the Gametocyte Biology, Host Immunity and Vector Stages to Interrupt the Transmission of Malaria
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Jo-Anne Chan et al
Recent clinical trials inform the future for malaria vaccines
Communications Medicine
Liriye Kurtovic et al
Current projects
View 3 moreHealthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB)
A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in Papua New Guinea.
Discovering the mechanisms and targets of immunity against malaria
In the fight against malaria, we're exploring antibodies that can directly inhibit host cell infection, interact with immune cells to kill and clear malaria or recruit the body’s complement system to neutralise infection.
Vaccines against malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax
The project identifies and prioritises candidate antigens for vaccine development.
