About
Dr Jaffar established the Alfred Lung Fibrosis Biobank (ALF Bank), which functioned as a biorepository of clinical lung samples from patients with pulmonary fibrosis and donor lungs which are not suitable for use in transplantation, in collaboration with Prof Glen Westall.
Dr Jaffar ran the experimental laboratory arm of Prof Westall’s research platform, which involves pre-clinical drug development with a variety of academic and industry partners.
Dr Jaffar’s career and research interests include: Interstitial lung disease; the extracellular matrix; pulmonary fibrosis and therapy/biomarker development.