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Full NameProfessor Damian Downey

Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine

Queen's University Belfast

Webpage:qub.ac.uk

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Research Fields

genetics, genomics and molecular biology
infectious disease and the immune system
physiology and non-communicable disease
epidemiology/population health research
clinical trials

Postgrad Medical Specialties

Medicine
Paediatrics
Pathology

Medical Subspecialties

Adolescent medicine
Gastroenterology
Health Informatics
Infectious diseases
Immunology
Pharmacology
Physiology
Respiratory Medicine

My Work

My main clinical research interest is cystic fibrosis (CF). I work with a range of colleagues that includes, clinicians, allied health professionals, a clinical research team and basic scientists to create a translational research program in CF. My focus is to optimise clinical response to established and new therapies. My investigator led projects currently involve;

-Multi-modal analysis of pulmonary exacerbations in CF, exploring the potential for clinical and inflammatory biomarkers to predict response to treatment
-The bacterial impact of non-antimicrobial therapies in CF and repurposing drugs
-The impact of co-morbidities in CF by deep patient phenotyping and utilising pre-clinical models to assess the mechanisms involved
-Exploration of Patient Reported Outcome Measures for clinical trials
-Treatment plans for respiratory tract fungal disease in CF
-Exploration of cellular signals in response to CFTR modulation

I also have additional research programs in bronchiectasis and pneumonia. My projects currently involve, pathogen identification in community acquired pneumonia and assessing outcome measures in bronchiectasis

These projects form a network of basic science and clinical projects.