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Milena Awad is a Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology at Monash University's Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Her work focuses on bacterial pathogenesis, particularly in Clostridium species, toxin mechanisms, and host-pathogen interactions. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals addressing health and well-being.
Her research interests include Clostridium difficile and sordellii pathogenesis, NLRP3 inflammasome activation by toxins, and bacterial spore biology. Notable projects include investigating toxin secretion mechanisms (ARC-funded) and host proteases' roles in enteric diseases (NHMRC-funded).
Her publications (55+) span toxin secretion, inflammasome activation, and spore development. Key findings include endolysin modulation of Clostridioides difficile toxin secretion and holin-mediated TcsL toxin release in Paeniclostridium sordellii.
As a patent inventor (2018), she contributed to innovations in pathogen detection. Collaborations span Australia and internationally, focusing on microbiology and infectious disease research.
