Carl Feng is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and completed his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. He was a Staff Scientist at NIAID, NIH before joining Sydney University as an academic. Dr Feng has a long-standing interest in understanding mechanisms mediating host resistance to infection. The goal of his program is to seek fundamental knowledge about immune system and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of human infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and influenza.