Predicting future renal and cardiovascular health in pregnant Indigenous Australian women
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Medicine cannot advance unless there is strategic basic research; it underpins all major advances in human health. As a medical graduate I was frustrated at the lack of knowledge in treating disease. Over the years I have seen many great advances in health care but many problems still exist.
Working to improve our knowledge of placental development and function, to better understand factors underlying preterm birth and the impact of maternal health on pregnancy outcome, will help to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous morbidity and mortality; a major problem in Australian health.
I want to show that;
I aim to continue to improve pregnancy outcomes particularly for Indigenous Australians and to provide new effective safe adjuncts for treatment of cancer by proving that widely used antihypertensive drugs are effective anticancer agents.
Emeritus Professor Eugenie Lumbers AM, FAA, Dist FRSN gained a national and international profile for her early discovery of an inactive form of renin (prorenin) that is activated by proteolysis and the prorenin receptor. She studied the role(s) of the renin-angiotensin system in human pregnancy and in oral contraceptive induced hypertension.
She has also studied foetal programming, particularly the impact of maternal renal dysfunction on fetal renal development. In 2008 Emeritus Professor Lumbers began work on the role(s) of the human intrauterine renin angiotensin system (RAS). In partnership with Dr Kirsty Pringle, she has developed a productive research team at University of Newcastle.
Eugenie Lumbers has written a children's book titled "Mystery in Mer". Purchase a copy online today. 50% of all proceeds will support life changing medical research at HMRI.
Predicting future renal and cardiovascular health in pregnant Indigenous Australian women
moreProfessor Eugenie Lumbers, Professor Tamas Zakar