Professor Jenkins is Deputy Director of the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia. His research interest is to define the roles that innate immune regulators, namely pattern recognition receptors and IL-6 family cytokines, play in the pathogenesis of numerous inflammation-associated cancers, namely gastric, pancreatic and lung cancers. His research programs incorporate long standing collaborations with basic scientific researchers and clinicians both nationwide and overseas, with a view to translate his preclinical findings into the clinic.