A/Prof Mainthan Palendira

Head of the Human Immunology laboratory at the University of Sydney

A/Prof Palendira heads the Human Immunology laboratory at the University of Sydney. He is also the Academic Director of Sydney Cytometry. His team is developing methodologies and protocols for mapping the immune landscape in clinical specimen and these are being applied by many clinical laboratories, including for monitoring clinical trial outcomes. His team has also developed and published analyses pipeline for high-dimensional data sets, including mass cytometry data analysis, cellular neighbourhood analysis, mapping cellular interactions within tissues and quantitative analysis of multi-parameter data sets.