Topics: Chronic diseases

Centenary Institute PhD student, Mark Man Gia Ly has been awarded the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Medical Officers Association President Prize for Laboratory Research.

Clinical Professor Devanshi Seth, Head of the Centenary Institute’s Alcoholic Liver Disease Laboratory is co-author on a newly published study that has identified factors affecting mortality in people drinking extreme amounts of alcohol.

The Centenary UTS Centre for Inflammation has hosted the 16th Annual NSW Asthma Meeting (NAMe) held at the Centenary Institute, 17-18 November 2022.

Macrophages are specialised cells from our immune system.

Jasmine Nguyen has been awarded the high honour of an early-offer University of Sydney International Scholarship, to pursue her COVID-19 and lung disease research, in a PhD at the Centenary Institute.

World-leading research into heart muscle disease has been boosted with the Centenary Institute’s Associate Professor Mathias Francois and team awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant to investigate left ventricular non compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC).

Research led by the Centenary Institute, the University of Technology Sydney and Ghent University Hospital, Belgium has identified a new therapeutic approach for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – the targeting and inhibition of a protein called RIPK1.

As we age our cells also age. They lose their normal functions and become resistant to cell death.

A new book, ‘The Good Gut Anti-Inflammatory Diet’, has been released by the Centenary Institute, which is full of informative knowledge, recipes and advice to maintain good gut health to control inflammation and to help prevent disease.