Professor Warwick Britton

Bosch Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology
Medicine (Immunology & Infectious Diseases), Central Clinical School
Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine & Cell Biology

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The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Research interests

Professor Britton is the Head of the Discipline of Infectious Diseases & Immunology and the Mycobacterial Research Program in the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine & Cell Biology, where he studies the immunological control of tuberculosis and new vaccine strategies to control this major human infection.

Current national competitive grants*

2009

Chronic bacterial infection and the generation of T cell memory: implication for vaccination against tuberculosis
Triccas J, Britton W
NHMRC Project Grants ($526,500 over 3 years)

Cytokine and macrophage determinants of pulmonary inflammation during tuberculosis
Saunders B, Britton W, Grau G
NHMRC Project Grants ($438,000 over 3 years)

2008

Regulation of pulmonary immune responses to subunit vaccines against tuberculosis
Britton W, West N, Triccas J
NHMRC Project Grant ($488,750 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney