Professor Warwick Britton
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Bosch Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology
D06 - Blackburn Building |
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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*
2011
Impact of Influenza A infection on T cell-mediated immunity to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Britton W, Triccas J, Florido Pereira Da Costa M, Stambas J
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant ($471,299 over 3 years)
Design, development and analysis of new tuberculosis drugs
West N, Britton W, Payne R
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant ($702,165 over 3 years)
2010
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)
Inhibition of Siderophore Biosynthesis for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
Payne R, Britton W
NHMRC Project Grant ($409,125 over 3 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)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney
PhD and Masters' project opportunities
The Influence of Chronic Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis on the Development of Protective Memory T cell Responses
Interaction of viral and tuberculosis infections in the lung
Role of LIGHT in the immunological control of cancer
Honours project opportunities
Cellular immune responses to influenza and mycobacterial co-infections in the lung