Education
Ebringer was educated in Melbourne High School, and graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne.
Ebringer was educated in Melbourne High School, and graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne.
He is also an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist in the Middlesex Hospital, now part of the UCH School of Medicine. He is known for his research in the field of autoimmune disease. Ebringer worked for one year as a Medical Registrar at the Walter Eliza Hall Institute under Sir Macfarlane Burnet and Professor
Ian Mackay where he developed an interest in autoimmune diseases.
He moved to London in the 1970s, working first with Ivan Roitt in the Department of Immunology at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1972, he formed the Immunology Unit at Queen Elizabeth College, now linked to King’s College which was located in the Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biology studying autoimmune diseases.
About 22 Doctor of Philosophy students graduated from the Immunology Unit over the subsequent thirty years. Ebinger was among the first to investigate the relationship between autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis and certain intestinal bacteria, klebsiella in particular.
His findings have been cited by proponents of herbal medicine gluten-free diets.