Anne Kelso (born 1954)[1] is an Australian biomedical researcher specialising in immunology and influenza.
She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
Kelso has previously served as president of the Australasian Society for Immunology, as Secretary-General of the International Union of Immunological Societies, and as a member of several governing boards and advisory groups, including the Council of QUT and the boards of the Telethon Kids Institute and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.
Kelso undertook research on the regulation of T lymphocyte effector function, particularly the cellular and molecular control of cytokine synthesis and cytolytic activity.
[5] Kelso holds an honorary professorial appointment in the Department of Microbiology and immunology at the University of Melbourne.