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Associate Professor Anne Brüstle is an immunologist at The John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. She completed her PhD in Human Biology in 2008 at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany. She was recruited to ANU in mid-2014, after being a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Her work centres around the autoimmune component of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), the most common neurodegenerative condition in young adults. Her group investigates key adaptive and innate immune mechanisms driving the pathogenesis of this condition. In 2018 she was awarded the Young Tall Poppy Award for her work for and with the MS community and she holds a senior research fellowship from MS Australia. She further is the MS research lead and chair of “Our Health in Our Hands” an interdisciplinary program developing personalised monitoring and managing approaches for chronic autoimmune conditions such as MS and diabetes.

Besides her research and MS community engagement, she currently is Associate Dean HDR for the College of Health and Medicine.