About
Glen Westall is a prolific researcher in the fields of lung transplantation and lung fibrosis. His research focuses on translational research aiming to bring bench discoveries to the clinic. As an academic clinician, he has established a number of translational projects with industry partners that have taken discoveries in basic science to the clinical interface. In particular, he has established biorepositories that collect and store both normal lung tissue (from deceased patients whose families consent to release lung tissue for research) and fibrotic, including silicotic lungs. Over the past 5 years, research collaborations arising from the Alfred’s biobank have been published in a number of high impact journals including Science, Nature Immunology, and Nature Communications. Glen has established multiple investigator-initiated industry funded translational studies that aim to bring discovery science to the patient in both lung transplantation and lung fibrosis.