Respiratory Medicine

Our major areas of research interest are:

* cellular and molecular mechanisms of the resolution and persistence of lung inflammation and scarring

* mechanisms of acute lung injury in the adult respiratory distress syndrome

* gene therapeutic approaches to the augmentation of genes that protect against tissue injury in lung inflammation

* biology of small-cell lung cancer

* the effects of cigarette smoke, ozone and other pollutants on the lung

* sleep apnoea

* applied lung physiology

The unit also offers a number of research opportunities in areas of clinical interest, for example:

* asthma

* chronic bronchitis

* emphysema

* cystic fibrosis