Focus
Inflammation and infection diseases
Respiratory Health

Group leader
Phil Hansbro

Centre Manager
Nicole Hansbro

Lab Manager
Amy Roman

Post-doctoral Fellows
Dr’s Caitlin Gillies, Chantal Donovan, Gang Liu, Izabela Galvao, Keshav Paudel, Matt Johansen, Peter Choi, Richard Kim, Sj Shen, Sobia Idrees, Vivek Dharwal, Vyoma Patel, Ashleigh Philp

Research Assistants
Christina Nalkurthi, Nisha Panth, Duc Nguyen, Linda Tong

Technical Officers
Carol Devine, Simon Gao, Solomon Odgers

PhD students
Hamidreza Sadegh, Haroon Khan, Jackie Marshall, Piyush Jha, Ranjith Jayaraman, Ridhima Wadhwa, Shatarupta Das, Tayyaba Sadaf, Vamshi Malyla, Chris Augood

Honours students
Daniella De Leon

Leader of head and neck cancer and eye programs
Guy Lyons (PhD student Matthew Callow)

Leader of  the bioinformatics sector
Dr. Alen Faiz, PhD 

Node leader for the drug delivery & formulation, Node leader for Post-graduate student liaison 

Kamal Dua

Node leader for the cardiovascular and stroke

Jaesung (Peter) Choi  

Node leader of lung fibrosis 
Gang Liu

Node leader for Bacterial and Viral Immunopathogenesis/Host-Pathogen Interactions
Matt Johansen

About us

We are the Centre for Inflammation. The first initiative joint programme between the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Centenary Institute (CI). Our focus is on investigating the development and progression of chronic respiratory diseases such as COPD, asthma, lung cancer and infections using mouse and human tissues. Our group is made of “clusters” who specialize in areas including 1) chronic respiratory disease in general, 2) bioinformatic analyses of genome-scale datasets, 3) epigenomics studies, 4) mitochondria, oxidative stress and immunometabolism, 5) microbiome studies, and 6) exosome studies of human and mouse tissues. We are also establishing our own COVID-19 PC3 laboratory.

Visit the UTS Centenary for Inflammation Centre website

Collaborations