Professor Nathan Bartlett – Targeting airway immunity in lung disease

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Abstract

It is now recognised that airway epithelium plays a central role in immunity. Many lung diseases can trace their origins to airway epithelium. In this talk, Professor Bartlett will discuss research that has focused on leveraging epithelial cell anti-microbial innate immunity to prevent respiratory viral disease or blocking pro-inflammatory/pro-fibrotic processes for diseases such as asthma and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Professor Nathan Bartlett Head of Viral Immunology and Respiratory Disease Group, University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute Professor Bartlett has over 20 years of experience working in respiratory viral immunology, pathogenesis of virus induced respiratory diseases and drug and vaccine development. After completing post-doctoral research, first at the University of Oxford and then Imperial College London, he began investigating rhinovirus and coronavirus infections and exacerbations of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary fibrosis.

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