UTS Centenary Centre for Inflammation

Focus
Inflammation and infection diseases
Respiratory Health

Group leader
Phil Hansbro

Centre Manager
Nicole Hansbro

Lab Manager
Amy Roman

Post-doctoral Fellows
Dr’s Caitlin Gillies, Chantal Donovan, Gang Liu, Izabela Galvao, Keshav Paudel, Matt Johansen, Peter Choi, Richard Kim, Sj Shen, Sobia Idrees, Vivek Dharwal, Vyoma Patel, Ashleigh Philp

Research Assistants
Christina Nalkurthi, Nisha Panth, Duc Nguyen, Linda Tong

Technical Officers
Carol Devine, Simon Gao, Solomon Odgers

PhD students
Hamidreza Sadegh, Haroon Khan, Jackie Marshall, Piyush Jha, Ranjith Jayaraman, Ridhima Wadhwa, Shatarupta Das, Tayyaba Sadaf, Vamshi Malyla, Chris Augood

Honours students
Daniella De Leon

Leader of head and neck cancer and eye programs
Guy Lyons (PhD student Matthew Callow)

Leader of the bioinformatics sector
Dr. Alen Faiz, PhD

Node leader for the drug delivery & formulation, Node leader for Post-graduate student liaison

Kamal Dua

Node leader for the cardiovascular and stroke

Jaesung (Peter) Choi

Node leader of lung fibrosis
Gang Liu

Node leader for Bacterial and Viral Immunopathogenesis/Host-Pathogen Interactions
Matt Johansen

About us

We are the Centre for Inflammation. The first initiative joint programme between the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Centenary Institute (CI). Our focus is on investigating the development and progression of chronic respiratory diseases such as COPD, asthma, lung cancer and infections using mouse and human tissues. Our group is made of “clusters” who specialize in areas including 1) chronic respiratory disease in general, 2) bioinformatic analyses of genome-scale datasets, 3) epigenomics studies, 4) mitochondria, oxidative stress and immunometabolism, 5) microbiome studies, and 6) exosome studies of human and mouse tissues. We are also establishing our own COVID-19 PC3 laboratory.

Visit the UTS Centenary for Inflammation Centre website.

Collaborations

Within UTS

Professor Alaina Ammi
Alen Faiz
Associate Professor Garry Myers
Dr Bernadette Saunders
Associate Professor Brian Oliver
Andrew Philp
Dr Brad Murray
Dr Megan Murray
Daniel Hesselson
Geoff McCaughan

External (National)

The University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute
Peter Wark, Peter Gibson, Jodie Simpson, Lisa Wood, Darryl Knight, Paul Foster, Chris Grainge, Michael Boyle, Andrew Boyle, Nick Talley, Marjory Walker, Joerg Mattes, Rohan Walker, Matt Dunn, Nikki Verrills, Phil Dickson, Deborah Hodgson, Zsolt Balogh, Dan McIllroy, Eillen McLaughlin, Simon Keely, Jay Horvat, John Attia

Queensland University of Technology
Ken Beagley, Peter Timms

University of Sydney
Warwick Britton, Stephen Simpson, Judy Black, Janette Burgess

WHO collaborating centre for influenza
Aeron Hurt, Ian Barr

Department of Primary Industries, NSW & Victoria
Simone Warner

Monash Institute of Medical Research
Paul Hertzog, Ashley Mansell

QIMR
Ranjeny Thomas/Ray Steptoe

Monash University
Charles Mackay, Alison Thorburn, Richard Harding, Foula Sozo

University of Queensland
Matt Cooper, Phil Hugenholtz, Ulricke Kappler, Alastair McEwan, Gabrielle Belz

University of Melbourne
Jamie Rossjohn

Boche institute - University of Sydney
Jonathon Stone, Dr Daniel Johnstone

Garvan Institute of Medical Research
David Galleo Ortega, Richard Harding, Dr Foula Sozo

WHO influenza laboratories, Melbourne
Aeron Hurt, Ian Barr