Dr Jonathan Dick |
A PhD student with the Kidney
Disease and Vasculitis Research Group at Monash University’s
Centre
for Inflammatory Diseases, Dr Jonathan Dick holds a Clinical
Academic Training Fellowship from Monash Health.
Jonathan presented his findings
that proteins in the complement system could help in more targeted treatments
for people with severe kidney disease caused by vasculitis.
“This form of severe kidney disease
is hard to treat and current treatments affect a variety of other tissues in
the body,” said Jonathan.
“I showed data demonstrating that complement
proteins are important in stimulating the underlying immune response that
causes the vasculitis and kidney inflammation, increasing our understanding of how
we should target complement in kidney disease.”
“This may have relevance to the use
of complement therapeutics in other diseases.”
Jonathan said it was very
satisfying to have his hard work recognised.
“I
had help from so many lab members on different aspects of the work and this
award is also recognition for the time and expertise that many of them have
contributed to make the project a success.”
Members
of the kidney research groups at Monash Health and the Monash Centre for
Inflammatory Diseases have won this highly prestigious award, given to only one
person each year, for the past seven years.
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