Category: Researcher Profiles
... Program, co-leader of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Severe Asthma and a practicing academic clinician in the Department of ... approaches to the management of chronic airway diseases particularly severe asthma and COPD. Her translational research programme links ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... international research profile in the fields of non-eosinophilic asthma, non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation and neutrophilic ... to include the study of airway bacteria and she now leads the severe asthma microbiome and resistome project in Australia in ... in our understanding of the composition of the airway microbiome in severe asthma and is essential to our future clinical management of ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... epithelium in innate immunity and inflammation in the context of asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis. My group has developed ... and management of difficult airways disease. This includes severe asthma, but I am interested in extending this approach to COPD ... that viral infection was the most common trigger for acute severe asthma in adults and showed that there was a direct link between ...
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... in babies. It is a strong risk factor for the development of asthma in infants with asthmatic parents. We have identified the ... prevention for bronchiolitis in infants born to mothers with asthma. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood and ... problem and there is no cure available. It is important to know how severe the allergy is because anaphylaxis can occur. We have identified ...
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... is on understanding the pathogenesis of respiratory diseases likes asthma, COPD, infections and lung cancer, using laboratory models to ... What would be the ultimate goal for your research? New treatments for asthma, COPD, infections and lung cancer are urgently needed. We’re ... Determining that early-life exposure to chlamydia infection induces severe asthma-like disease; Showing that Streptococcus pneumoniae ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... appears to be driving the association between obesity and asthma, and this work has since been replicated by other research ... guidelines for the management of obesity in people with severe asthma, published by the NHMRC Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma - ...
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... strategies against future influenza pandemics. Infections in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) : People with asthma or COPD are highly vulnerable to viral infections, leading to severe symptoms with increased risk of death. I am investigating how ...
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... early childhood promote the development of chronic diseases such as asthma, emphysema and diabetes. Understanding how the lung develops and ... infections exacerbate underlying chronic diseases, leading to more severe forms of disease that are resistant to current therapies. ... systems. More recently Dr Starkey has modeled infection-induced severe asthma and emphysema and is identifying strategies for treating ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... your research interests? Airway hyperresponsiveness and eosinophilia. Severe asthma and glucocorticoid resistance. Molecular mechanisms underpinning ... models of allergic airway diseases, acute respiratory infection and severe and steroid-resistant asthma, which better reflect the origins ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... tracts and of the central nervous system. His major focus is on asthma and respiratory diseases. Excessive inflammation and dysregulated immune responses play a key role in asthma and many other diseases that affect millions of Australians. Jay ... immune responses in the airways of people with asthma to drive more severe, poorly controlled forms of disease and how the ...
