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Healthy Ageing (Expansion Program)

Healthy Ageing

Promoting improved physical, mental and social wellbeing in vulnerable communities and healthy ageing from birth.

This program focuses on promoting wellbeing in vulnerable communities and healthy ageing from birth.

Through the Healthy Ageing program Burnet will make a major contribution:

To knowledge about biological and psychosocial determinants of healthy ageing
To developing new tools and therapeutics for diseases associated with ageing
To promoting inclusive communities and services for healthy ageing
To integrating concepts of healthy ageing into all our research and development activities
To increasing the capacity of health professionals, researchers, policy makers and the general community in relation to healthy ageing, through education and training in Australia and globally.

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Contact Details

Professor Suzanne Crowe AM

Program Director, Healthy Ageing (Expansion Program); NHMRC Principal Research Fellow

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+61392822194

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suzanne.crowe@burnet.edu.au

Projects

A novel biomarker for gut leakage as a diagnostic tool for HIV disease progression
Investigating a novel plasma biomarker's potential for identifying gut leakage.
Broadly neutralising anti-HIV antibodies and Fc Receptor function
Defining the properties of anti-HIV antibodies for vaccine development and protection of pregnant women.
Developing new HIV disease progression tests
This project will develop prognostic tools to identify HIV+ persons at risk of rapid disease progression.
Discovery of new cell surface biomarkers of Th17 and Th1 cells
We are researching the cause of inflammation associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
Discovery of new treatments for myeloma and myelogenous leukemia
We are developing monoclonal antibodies against new biomakers to treat blood cancers.
New approaches to the treatment of lupus
Research into an early intervention diagnostic test for Lupus, which is particularly dangerous to women.

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