Mastura Monif (BBiomed Sci, B Sci Hons, MBBS, PhD, FRACP) is an Associate Professor in the Van Cleef Centre for Nervous Diseases, Department of Neuroscience, within the School of Translational Medicine. She leads the Neuroimmunology, Neuroinflammation and Neuro Oncology Lab at Monash University Department of Neuroscience. Her research interests are to understand how neuroinflammation can induce neurological disease. The main areas of research focus in her lab are: Autoimmune Encephalitis, Glioblastoma (brain cancer), Autoimmune Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) and Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy related neurotoxicity. 

To understand how neuroinflammation and innate immune responses can lead to neurological diseases.

To decipher biomarkers of neuroinflammatory disease that can assist with disease diagnosis, prognostication and aid in improved therapeutics.

She is also a Consultant Neurologist at Alfred Health. She leads the Neuroimmunology Service at Alfred Health. Her clinical interest and expertise are neuroimmunological diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Autoimmune Encephalitis, and other central nervous system inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. She is also leads the neurology division of CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell) Therapy for haematological malignancies and autoimmune CNS diseases at Alfred Health focusing on diagnosis and management of neurological complications of CAR-T Therapy.