E-mail
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Cindy Ma
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Educational Background & Professional Experience
Year Affiliation Position
2020 — present The Garvan Institute of Medical Research Lab Head, Associate Professor
2013 — 2019 The Garvan Institute of Medical Research Group Leader
2006 — 2013 The Garvan Institute of Medical Research Research Officer/Senior Research Officer
2002 — 2005 The University of Sydney PhD
Research Interests
Primary Immunodeficiency, CD4+ T cells, Atopic Disease
List of Major publications
- Pillay, et al. (2021) Somatic reversion of pathogenic DOCK8 variants alters lymphocyte
differentiation and function to effectively cure DOCK8 deficiency. Journal of Clinical
Investigations. 131. 59-76 - Payne, et al. (2020) OMIP-063: 28-Color flow cytometry panel for broad human
immunophenotyping. Cytometry A. cyto.a.24018-5 - Pillay, et al. (2019) Hematopoietic stem cell transplant effectively rescues lymphocyte
differentiation and function in DOCK8-deficient patients. JCI Insight. 4: e127527. *equal
contribution - Moran, et al. (2019) B-cell intrinsic requirement for STK4 in humoral immunity in mice and
human subjects. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 143: 2302-5 *equal contribution - Tangye, et al. (2017) Dedicator of cytokinesis 8-deficient CD4+ T cells are biased to a Th2
effector fate at the expense of Th1 and Th17 cells. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
139: 933-49. - Ma, et al. (2016) Unique and shared signaling pathways cooperate to regulate the
differentiation of human CD4+ T cells into distinct effector subsets. Journal of Experimental
Medicine. 213: 1589-608.