Alex Wood

Dr

  • The University of Western Australia (M503), 35 Stirling Highway,

    6009 Perth

    Australia

Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects

PhD/HDR research projects available:

I am keen to discuss PhD supervision opportunities with prospective students and co-supervisors. Areas of expertise include procurement and management of clinical samples and translational research aimed at understanding disease or treatment mechanisms.

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Biography

As a clinician-scientist working in intensive care, my research is focussed on understanding dysregulation of the immune system in critically ill patients. Critical illness is an aetiologically and clinically heterogeneous syndrome that is characterised by organ failure and immune dysfunction, both of which drive mortality. I believe that combining an understanding of immune cell function (the immunophenotype) with physiological and clinical data will facilitate novel insights into the pathophysiology of critical illness syndromes, allowing the identification of viable therapeutic targets. My interest and skills in this area of research began during my PhD (University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr Andrew Conway Moris) where I investigated signalling pathways leading to defective neutrophil function in critical illness states. I devised and co-lead the Functional Immunophenotyping in Critical Illness study (FICI, RMH-ICU and Peter Doherty Institute) which has performed deep immunophenotyping of over 70 patients and controls with the aim of identifying endotypes with divergent clinical outcomes and is currently in the data analysis phase.

Learnings and collaborations from the FICI study have driven my involvement in the MRFF Early and Mid Career Researcher Grant funded MEGASCORES project. As a chief investigator, I will lead recruitment at Western Australian sites and have planned the human immunophenotyping aspect of the study in collaboration with partners at the Doherty Institute.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

External positions

Intensive Care Fellow, Fiona Stanley Hospital

6 Aug 20244 Aug 2025

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