Professor Christopher Sobey BSc(Hons) PhD

Chris Sobey obtained his PhD in 1991 from the University of Melbourne in Australia. In 1994 he was awarded an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral studies at the University of Iowa. In 2005 he first was appointed an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, an award he continues to hold. In 2006 he established the Vascular Biology and Immunopharmacology Group with Grant Drummond at Monash University. In 2017 he and Professor Drummond were recruited to La Trobe University as Professors in Physiology. Chris is a Senior Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology, with a career total of more than 170 publications, and his research has examined mechanisms regulating vascular function during diseases such as hypertension, subarachnoid haemorrhage, sepsis, ischaemia-reperfusion and hypercholesterolaemia. His work is currently investigating the inflammatory mechanisms occurring in the brain after stroke in order to identify and develop novel approaches to treat clinical stroke patients.