Lung epithelial stem cells in chronic respiratory disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1009374

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The World Health Organisation estimates that by 2020, 12 of 68 million deaths worldwide will be attributed to lung disease with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ranked the 3rd leading cause of death. Current therapies are palliative, providing symptomatic relief but no prospect of cure. In this project, we aim to determine how the ability of lung stem cells to repair the lung is compromised in disease in order to develop innovative therapies to arrest or reverse the disease process.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $586,965.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

asthma | chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | clonogenic assay | microenvironment | mouse models | respiratory diseases | respiratory epithelium | stem cell therapy | stem cells | tissue regeneration

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