Primary organisation: University of New South Wales
Principal Investigator: Dr Rama Kandasamy
Flagship requested: Mackenzie's Mission
Co-applicants: Professor Tom Snelling (University of Sydney), Associate Professor Ashad Kabir (Charles Sturt University), Dr Shahin Oftadeh (Institute Of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital)
Approval date: September 2023
Applicant’s project summary:
Chest infections (pneumonia) are the largest cause of death in children. Better vaccines and treatments would help reduce the number of children who are hospitalized and/or die from this illness every year. New technologies, like those which determine the type of genes we have and how they respond when we have pneumonia, can be used to better understand the disease, improve disease prevention, and develop treatments which are tailored to the person.