Congratulations to all the award winners recognised at the Australasian Rare Lung Disease Short Course in Sydney last month.
The sold-out meeting provided an opportunity for clinicians and researchers from across the country to hear about the latest advances in lung disease research.
Prof Tamera Corte and A/Prof Nicole Goh from the CRE-PF co-convened the meeting and research from with the collaboration was well represented across the 2-day program, which you can see here.
Huge congratulations to all the award winners recognised for their remarkable research work, and a special shout out to CRE-PF collaborators:
- CRE-PF Associate Investigator John Mackintosh, from the Prince Charles Hospital in Queensland, won Best Clinical Oral Presentation for, Telomere length and gene variants in Australian adults with pulmonary fibrosis.
- CREATE Fellow Paris Papagianis, from Monash University in Victoria, won Best Scientific Oral Presentation for, Fibrogenesis in precision cut lung slides from TGF-beta1 overexpressing mice.
- CREATE Fellow Doris Lan, from the University of Sydney in New South Wales, won Best Abstract from a CREATE PhD student for, Feasibility of real-time air quality data from RE-BUILD app for interstitial lung disease.
In addition, the CRE-PF awarded two CREATE Grants-in-Aid of $10,000 each to support collaborative research between CREATE fellows to:
- Mariana Hoffman, Monash University; Debra Sandford, University of Adelaide and Leona Dowman, Monash University for, Effect of a brief behavioural intervention to improve physical activity in people with pulmonary fibrosis.
- Christian Aloe, RMIT University; Alexandra Brown, University of Newcastle and Lai-Ying Zhang, Metro North Hospitals, Brisbane for, Targeting iron-induced oxidative stress to preserve telomere health in lung fibrosis.