Professor David Charles Harris

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

C24 - Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Themes

Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease; Chronic disease and ageing

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Research interests

The prevention and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), as well as the management of patients with end stage kidney disease by peritoneal and haemodialysis. Laboratory research interests focus on progression of CKD, most recently the use of cellular and other novel approaches to slow progression.

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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)

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

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

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