This program of work focuses on smoking related lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and lung cancer, as well as diseases affecting the blood vessels in the lungs. The work includes basic cell biology and human clinical trials.There is a high likelihood that new approaches to treating lung disease will emerge.
This Practitioner Fellowship will aim to improve outcomes in people with lung cancer. The clinical studies will focus on: 1. Using low dose CT scans to detect lung cancer at a very early stage. 2. Molecular tests to diagnose lung cancer earlier, and provide information that will be useful for deciding treatment 3. Using advanced techniques to diagnose small opacities in the lung
A-Prof Greg King is a respiratory physician researcher whose studies are to define the mechanisms by which diseases, such as asthma and COPD occur. He has developed novel tools to measure lung disease, particularly complex lung function testing and lung imaging.
Better Care Of Heart And Lung Disease For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People In Rural And Remote Australia
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$380,583.00
Summary
Lung and heart disease are major contributors to the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander health gap. This is even more so in remote and regional Australia. This Fellowship will generate new knowledge regarding how best to prevent, diagnose and treat heart and lung disease in this setting. Based in Alice Springs, it will bring together researchers and health care providers across northern and Central Australia and link them with our leading national research institutes.