Prof Tu’uhevaha Kaitu’u-Lino is a NHMRC RD Wright (CDF2) and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mercy Hospital for Women, University of Melbourne. She leads the Diagnostics Discovery and Reverse Translation in Pregnancy team under the wider Translational Obstetrics Group, and currently has two major research focuses; 1) Identifying new diagnostics to identify preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction (to reduce the incidence of stillbirth) 2) Understanding the pathogenesis of these diseases to assist in identifying new therapeutic targets.
A mid-career scientist, Prof Kaitu’u-Lino has published >125 peer-reviewed publications in leading specialist journals and prestigious interdisciplinary journals. She is currently CI on a NHMRC Project Grant, a NHMRC Ideas Grant, an ARC Discovery Project, a NHMRC Fellowship and a NHMRC Synergy grant. Since being awarded her PhD in 2008 (and with 35 months of career interruption since) she has been CI on over $13.5M in research funding.
Prof Kaitu’u-Lino is currently Deputy Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Uni of Melbourne and a Program Organising Committee co-chair for the Society for Reproductive Biology. She regularly acts as an ad hoc reviewer for international journals and sits on the Editorial Board for the journals Placenta and Scientific Reports. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of scientists and clinician scientists and is currently supervising 5 PhD and 3 honours students. A mum of 4 and step-mum of 2, Prof Kaitu’u-Lino is a strong advocate for women in STEM.