Surfactant protein D as a candidate therapy in COPD

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565210

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Smoking -related chronic bronchitis and emphysema, otherwise known COPD, costs the healthcare system over $800 million per year. People continue to suffer even after they have given up smoking, and the treatments available result in only modest improvements. COPD is associated with a a defect of the scavenging cells in the lung, which normally clear away dying cells, and some of the proteins ivolved in this process. We will investigate whether supplementing these proteins will help.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $405,749.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Respiratory Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Airway inflammation | Apoptosis | Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Phagocytosis | Smoking related diseases | Treatment of respiratory disease | surfactant proteins

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