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Working Towards a Better Understanding of ARF
Investigators: Anthony Bosco, Caroline Motteram, Christine Everest, Jonathan Carapetis, Michael Serralha, Mitali Manzur, Rebecca Trowman, Tobi Kollmann
External collaborators: Andrea Beaton (Children’s National Health System), Craig Sable (Children's Research Institute)
Andrea Beaton is a recipient of an RHD Fellowship from American Heart Association Children’s Network.
Andrea's project: Working Towards a Better Understanding of ARF.
Project Goal: Characterize the pattern of contemporary and endemic ARF and develop a biological signature to improve sensitivity and specificity of ARF diagnosis.
As part of the fellowship, Andrea has the opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers from international researchers. Jonathan Carapetis is an CI on a subproject to explore the immunology of ARF and to develop a diagnostic test.
Our Investigators
Anthony Bosco
BSc (Hons) PhD Immunology & Genomics
Simon Lee Fellow; Interim Head, Centre for Personalised Medicine for Children; Program Head, Immunity and Inflammation; Team Leader, Systems Immunology
Email meJonathan Carapetis AM
AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS
Institute Director; Head, Strep A and Rheumatic Heart Disease; Co-Director of REACH
08 6319 1555 Email me