Focus

Respiratory health

Group leaders

Professor Alaina Ammit

Group members

Maria Rezcallah (PhD student)
Patrick He (PhD student)

About us

The prevalence of chronic respiratory disease is on the increase. Inflammation drives pathogenesis and disease progression. But in many clinical situations we do not have effective treatments.

Thus, alternative anti-inflammatory strategies are urgently needed. Research in our lab focusses on understanding the mechanistic basis of inflammation in respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).  This new knowledge will allow us to develop novel propose a novel anti-inflammatory strategies to treat this currently untreatable disease. 

Collaborations

Within UTS

Associate Professor Brian Oliver
Dr Alen Faiz
Dr David Chapman
Professor Phil Hansbro

External

University of New South Wales
University of Newcastle
University of Birmingham