About me

Dr Jerome Coudert, who was the Lead Scientist in Professor Merrilee Needham’s Myositis Discovery Programme from 2017 - 2024, has returned to France where he has taken up a Chair Professorship in Immunology of Ageing at the University of Toulouse, one of Europe’s oldest universities, established in 1229. Jerome is the Group Leader in the University’s Gerontology Science and Rejuvenation Research Centre.

Originally from France where he completed a PhD in Immunology, his scientific training further extended as a postdoctoral fellow in Switzerland (2002-2006) and then in Perth (2007-2010). In 2011, he initiated his first independent immunology research group at the Lions Eye Institute.

His research at Murdoch University has focused on understanding the immunology of inclusion body myositis. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he became an active member of an international COVID research consortium, where he focused on analysing the body’s immune response to the COVID-19 virus, research that was published in high-impact scientific journals, including Nature. Jerome remains a collaborator of the Personalised Medicine Centre.

Organisational Affiliations

Personalised Medicine Centre, Murdoch University

Senior Research Fellow, Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science (Australia, Nedlands) - WANRI

Senior Research Fellow, The University of Notre Dame Australia (Australia, Fremantle) - UNDA

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Murdoch University, Personalised Medicine Centre

Past Affiliations

Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics, Murdoch University

Education

Cell Biology and Physiology
10/1992–07/1996, Master by coursework, University of Limoges, France
Human Pathophysiology, specialisation in Immunology
10/1996–07/1997, Master of Advanced Studies , University of Toulouse, France

Research project: Role of oxydized LDL on human T lymphocyte activation and in Atherosclerosis.

Immunology
1998–2002, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toulouse Paul Sabatier, France

Research Project: Role of CD8 T cells and NK cells during allospecific CD4 T cell activation and differentiation. With Very honourable mention