A/Prof Mastura Monif is a neurologist/neuroimmunologist at Alfred Health, and leads the Neuroimmunology Service there. She also leads the Neurology Division of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy at Alfred Precinct, Victoria, Australia. She has a laboratory-based PhD in neuroinflammation, and leads the Neurology, Neuroinflammation and Neuro Oncology lab at Monash University. Her research group focuses on understanding the clinical, cellular and molecular basis of neuroinflammatory illness, including CART related neurotoxicity. Her clinical expertise is in central inflammatory disorders including the neurological and neurocognitive manifestations of CAR T cell therapy.