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  • New drug target identified for inflammatory lung disease

    Researchers at the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney have identified a new drug target for the treatment and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory lung disease that causes airway blockage and that makes it difficult to breathe.
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    Date 04 Jul 2022
  • Inflammation presentation awarded

    Dr Joyce Chiu from the ACRF Centenary Cancer Research Centre has won an Oral Communication Award for her talk given at the 15th World Congress on Inflammation, held in Rome, June 2022.
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    Date 01 Jul 2022
  • The Centenary Institute is excited to join the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator (SBA) as primary medical research partner

    The Centenary Institute welcomes the NSW Government’s commitment to fund a new biomedical complex in Camperdown. The Chair of the Centenary Institute Board, Joseph Carrozzi AM, and its Executive Director, Professor Mathew Vadas AO, are thrilled that a biomedical complex, the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator (SBA), will now be a reality.
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    Date 17 Jun 2022
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    Professor Chis Semsarian AM, Head of the Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology at the Centenary Institute and Cardiologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, has given a headline talk on the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease as a part of Sydney Local Health District’s 'Innovation Week' event.
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    Date 03 Jun 2022
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Researchers at the Centenary Institute and the Uni Researchers at the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney have identified a new drug target for the treatment and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory lung disease that causes airway blockage and that makes it difficult to breathe. ⁣
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Secreted by mast cells, a part of the immune system, the drug target is an enzyme known as mast cell chymase-1 (CMA1). ⁣
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CMA1 was found by the researchers to actively promote and progress the development of COPD. New drugs targeting CMA1, said the researchers, could offer up a new therapeutic approach to tackling COPD which affects more than 300 million people globally. ⁣
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Pictured is Dr Gang Liu, the study’s lead author and researcher at the Centenary UTS Centre for Inflammation. ⁣
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Read more - click the link in our bio.⁣
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Congratulations to Dr Joyce Chiu from the ACRF Cen Congratulations to Dr Joyce Chiu from the ACRF Centenary Cancer Research Centre who won an Oral Communication Award for her talk given at the 15th World Congress on Inflammation.⁣
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The talk, delivered during the Cardiovascular Inflammation session, featured a recent discovery of a new mechanism that controls movement of immune cells during inflammation.⁣
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“Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide with inflammation underlying the development of coronary heart disease and heart attack,” said Dr Chiu.⁣
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“Abnormal recruitment of immune cells to the blood vessel linings can cause inflammation leading to obstruction of blood vessels.”⁣
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“Using a cross-disciplinary approach, I discussed how the movement of immune cells are controlled by force and chemical reactions. This force-chemical mechanism can be targeted to potentially alleviate inflammation and help treat diseases,” Dr Chiu said.⁣
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