Professor Sorrell is Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases and Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney at Westmead, New South Wales. She has had a longstanding clinical interest in mycology and infections in the immunocompromised host. Her research has focussed on the pathogenesis of fungal infections, new antifungal drug development, new diagnostics and clinical trials of antifungal diagnostic and treatment strategies. She has served on state and national advisory committees in Infectious Diseases and therapeutics and the Research and Human Ethics Committees of NHMRC.