{"id":10363,"date":"2020-09-03T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lungfoundation.com.au\/?post_type=article&#038;p=10363"},"modified":"2022-11-04T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:00:11","slug":"record-breaking-1-1-mil-funding-injection-into-pulmonary-fibrosis-research","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/lungfoundation.com.au\/news\/record-breaking-1-1-mil-funding-injection-into-pulmonary-fibrosis-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking ($1.1 Mil) funding injection into Pulmonary Fibrosis research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month (September),&nbsp;Lung Foundation Australia&nbsp;will&nbsp;provide&nbsp;the&nbsp;nation\u2019s&nbsp;single-biggest philanthropic investment in dedicated Pulmonary Fibrosis research to the Centre of Research Excellence in Pulmonary Fibrosis (CRE-PF).<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;$1.1 million&nbsp;investment&nbsp;will&nbsp;support ground-breaking&nbsp;and world-leading&nbsp;discoveries tackling&nbsp;the debilitating&nbsp;and incurable lung&nbsp;disease that impacts on thousands of Australians each year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the survival rates for&nbsp;Pulmonary Fibrosis&nbsp;can be as low as some of the most devastating cancers<sup>i<\/sup>&nbsp;and with emerging research&nbsp;indicating post-viral&nbsp;lung&nbsp;fibrosis in COVID-19 patients<sup>ii<\/sup>,&nbsp;experts&nbsp;are&nbsp;preparing&nbsp;for what could be a significant wave of Pulmonary Fibrosis&nbsp;diagnoses over coming years.&nbsp;With more than 13 million recovered cases of COVID-19 worldwide,&nbsp;CRE-PF&nbsp;Chief&nbsp;Investigator and leading&nbsp;respiratory physician,&nbsp;Associate Professor Tamera Corte says&nbsp;this funding boost&nbsp;is more&nbsp;important&nbsp;than ever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPulmonary Fibrosis can develop following chronic inflammation caused by respiratory illness so the burden of&nbsp;this condition&nbsp;after the pandemic could be substantial.&nbsp;With more patients impacted, it\u2019s critical that we&nbsp;better understand&nbsp;how&nbsp;Pulmonary Fibrosis&nbsp;behaves&nbsp;and identify new&nbsp;treatments&nbsp;to try and slow&nbsp;the progression&nbsp;down,\u201d&nbsp;A\/Prof Corte said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pulmonary Fibrosis is an&nbsp;incurable&nbsp;and&nbsp;fatal&nbsp;lung disease&nbsp;that causes scarring&nbsp;which stiffens&nbsp;the lungs&nbsp;and&nbsp;progressively reduces a&nbsp;person\u2019s&nbsp;ability to breathe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lung Foundation Australia CEO Mark Brooke says&nbsp;thanks to the support of a generous donor&nbsp;family&nbsp;who lost&nbsp;their&nbsp;father to the crippling disease,&nbsp;the organisation has&nbsp;a unique opportunity to work with its&nbsp;research partner, the CRE-PF, to attract and support the best and brightest researchers&nbsp;and&nbsp;make significant inroads that will change lives and give hope to Australian families.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to COVID-19&nbsp;now, more than ever, Australians appreciate that our respiratory health determines how&nbsp;we live our lives.&nbsp;With the&nbsp;early insight into the long-term&nbsp;health&nbsp;impacts of COVID-19, it\u2019s vital we invest in&nbsp;respiratory&nbsp;research&nbsp;now to support what could be the next generation of&nbsp;Pulmonary Fibrosis&nbsp;patients,\u201d Mr Brooke said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know&nbsp;research breakthroughs&nbsp;take time and brilliant minds, that\u2019s why&nbsp;it\u2019s crucial we see&nbsp;ongoing support from&nbsp;philanthropy, government and the&nbsp;community.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\/Prof Corte says&nbsp;this&nbsp;funding boost is&nbsp;critical&nbsp;to help the CRE-PF&nbsp;build on the&nbsp;significant progress&nbsp;made&nbsp;in recent years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTogether with the team of researchers\u202facross Australia, we are looking at ways to identify which patients with lung fibrosis are likely to progress quicker than others.\u202fSome of the exciting new results have shown that there are blood and CT scan biomarkers which help us in that, and this will allow us to&nbsp;provide targeted and&nbsp;personalised&nbsp;treatment&nbsp;as early as possible,\u201d A\/Prof Corte said.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is amazing given&nbsp;just a few years ago, we had no treatment at all for this condition. Research has got us to the point where we have&nbsp;options&nbsp;which slow the disease&nbsp;down,&nbsp;but they don\u2019t stop&nbsp;it&nbsp;completely so eventually, even with treatment, this disease relentlessly progresses and kills people.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a researcher, it\u2019s a once in a lifetime opportunity to&nbsp;see our understanding of a condition progress&nbsp;to&nbsp;a point like we\u2019re at today,&nbsp;where there is so much hope for the future.&nbsp;With the support of generous donors like this, and the support of the community, we\u2019re able to&nbsp;continue this&nbsp;research that will ultimately change and save lives.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find&nbsp;out more,&nbsp;visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3gpd6lI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3gpd6lI<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-ENDS-&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For media enquiries please contact:&nbsp;<br><strong>Paxton Roth, Media and Communications Coordinator<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>07 3251 3654 or 0435 447 315&nbsp;<br><a href=\"mailto:paxtonr@lungfoundation.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paxtonr@lungfoundation.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For the thousands of Australians living with Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF), research means access to life-changing new treatments and hope for a cure. 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