Erin Brazel, PHD

Management

Erin is Director of Microbiology at GPN Vaccines and a Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide where she leads a team focused on understanding the molecular details of host-bacterial interactions and applying this knowledge to develop new vaccines and antimicrobials. In 2024, Erin was awarded a prestigious Passe & Williams Foundation Fellowship to explore new combination vaccines. She is a co-inventor on three filed patents related to Streptococcal vaccine design and formulation and has independently attracted >$450k in external research funding over the last three years. Erin completed her PhD in pneumococcal biology at the University of Adelaide in 2020 and was awarded the Derrick Rowley Prize in Microbiology and Immunology in 2015.