Professor Michael Hickey
Professor Michael Hickey is Director of the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases at Monash University. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne and undertook postdoctoral training at the University of Calgary in Canada, in the laboratory of Dr. Paul Kubes, where he received training in intravital microscopy and the investigation of the mechanisms of leukocyte recruitment. Michael returned to Australia in 2000, and joined the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases at Monash University in 2001. He was appointed Director of the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases in 2019. His expertise lies in the analysis of the actions of leukocytes during inflammatory responses. Michael’s laboratory uses various forms of advanced in vivo imaging, including multiphoton microscopy, to image a wide range of tissues during the inflammatory response. In recent years, Michael’s lab has used this approach to investigate the mechanisms of leukocyte recruitment and leukocyte behaviour in the inflamed kidney in conditions such as glomerulonephritis, and the actions of regulatory T cells in inflamed skin. His work has been published in journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, and Kidney International.
Email: michael.hickey@monash.edu