Professor Warwick Britton
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Bosch Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology
D06 - Blackburn Building |
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Themes | Research interests | Grants | Research project opportunities | Keywords
Themes
Infection and Immunological Conditions
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*
2010
Inhibition of Siderophore Biosynthesis for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
Payne R, Britton W
NHMRC Project Grant ($409,125 over 3 years)
A new direction for TB control in highly endemic countries: a RCT of active case finding
Marks G, Britton W, Sy D, Nhung N, Wood J
NHMRC Project Grant ($1,296,645 over 5 years)
2009
Immunity Infection Genomics Consortium
Cornall R, Bell J, Goodnow C, Lathrop M, Britton W, Vinuesa C
Wellcome Trust (UK) Research Support ($1,847,005 over 5 years)
Cytokine and macrophage determinants of pulmonary inflammation during tuberculosis
Saunders B, Britton W, Grau G
NHMRC Project Grants ($438,000 over 3 years)
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)
2008
Regulation of pulmonary immune responses to subunit vaccines against tuberculosis
Britton W, Triccas J, West N
NHMRC Project Grant ($488,750 over 3 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney
Research project opportunities
Interaction of viral and tuberculosis infections in the lung
Role of LIGHT in the immunological control of cancer
Keywords
Vaccines and vaccinology; Immune system diseases; Asthma; Immunology; Tuberculosis