As part of our Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) webinar series, we are pleased to present the Spotlight on PF research webinar.
Prof Tamera Corte will provide an exclusive update on the new Centre of Research Excellence in Pulmonary Fibrosis (CRE-PF), including an overview of the focus areas influencing PF research. Prof Dan Chambers and Prof Jo Dickinson will further provide an insight into some of the latest research projects in PF, including genetic research, drug development and clinical trials.
You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speakers during the live presentation and upon registration.
Details
Date: Wednesday 22 March
Time: 1:30pm (QLD), 2:30pm (NSW, VIC, TAS), 2:00pm (SA), 1:00pm (NT) 11:30am (WA)
Speaker bios
Professor Tamera Corte
Professor Tamera Corte is a Consultant Respiratory Physician and Director of Interstitial Lung Disease at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Tamera is a Professor at the University of Sydney and is the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Australasian Interstitial Lung Disease Registry, and a member of multiple international task forces.
Prof Corte served as Clinical Fellow in Interstitial Lung Disease at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and has a PhD in the identification of pulmonary vascular dysfunction in interstitial lung disease. She continues her research at Sydney University, where she is Chief Investigator on the Centre of Research Excellence for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CRE-PF), which strives to improve and extend the lives of patients living with PF.
Professor Dan Chambers
Professor Dan Chambers is a thoracic transplant physician, interstitial lung disease expert, and translational clinician researcher. He is an internationally recognised authority in the fields of lung fibrosis, cell therapy for lung disease and lung transplantation. His research focuses on the mechanisms and treatments for lung fibrosis, silicosis, transplant rejection and post-transplant complications.
Dan is Executive Director of Research at Australia’s’ largest health service, Metro North Hospital and Health, and heads one of the world’s largest clinical trials programs in lung fibrosis. He is Chair of the Lung Foundation Australia Pulmonary Fibrosis Australasian Clinical Trials Network (PACT).
Professor Joanne Dickinson
Professor Joanne Dickinson is a human genetics researcher based at Menzies Institute for Medical Research and in the Centre for Law and Genetics at the University of Tasmania. She was a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded scholar for her PhD in pathology focusing on cancer research at the University of Queensland. Professor Dickinson then trained as a geneticist, and her work now involves investigating how inherited differences in genes contribute to the development and progression of human diseases. She is particularly interested in how we can use this knowledge to discover new therapies for those diseases for which there are currently limited effective treatment options.
Together with Professor Corte, Jo has been involved in the development of a nation-wide genetics research study which is seeking to understand the genetic basis of PF, to gain a greater understanding on how genetic changes drive disease development, with the view to finding better ways of managing PF including the discovery of novel therapies.