Professor David Charles Harris

Professor
Medicine, Western Clinical School
Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research

C24 - Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Themes

Chronic and Preventable Conditions; Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

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Research interests

progression of chronic kidney disease, dialysis

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Current national competitive grants*

2010

Vitamin D3 receptor signalling to prevent kidney failure due to polycystic kidney disease
Rangan G, Harris D
NHMRC Project Grant ($451,314 over 3 years)

Optimising the therapeutic efficacy of anti-inflammatory macrophages for use in chronic kidney diseases
Wang Y, Harris D
NHMRC Project Grant ($389,000 over 3 years)

Gamm-Delta Tregs, CD8 Tregs and selected natural Tregs to treat renal injury
Alexander S, Harris D, Wang Y, Wang Y
NHMRC Project Grant ($583,500 over 3 years)

Preventing Kidney Fibrosis By Targeting Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in Chronic Kidney Disease
Harris D, Zheng G
NHMRC Project Grant ($497,250 over 3 years)

2009

DNA vaccination using chemokine and costimulatory pathways as a treatment for chronic kidney disease
Harris D, Alexander S, Wang Y, Wang Y
NHMRC Project Grants ($432,750 over 3 years)

2007

Initiating Dialysis Early and Late Trial
Pollock C, Harris D, Cooper B
NHMRC Project Grant ($662,053 over 3 years)

Loss of E-cadherin in distal tubule cells as a common pathway for cyst formation in polycystic kidney disease
Rangan G, Harris D
NHMRC Project Grant ($306,750 over 3 years)

Kidney Injury as a determinant of macrophage phenotype and efficacy for treating chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Wang Y, Harris D
NHMRC Project Grant ($525,000 over 3 years)

Treatment of Diverse Renal Diseases with Regulatory Cells
Harris D, Alexander S, Wang Y, Wang Y
NHMRC Project Grant ($544,500 over 3 years)

2006

E-Cadherin as the key molecule in renal epithelial-mesenchymal transition and fibrosis
Harris D
NHMRC Project Grant ($311,250 over 4 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

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