From 🇱🇰| Living in 🇦🇺| She/Her | Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Head of Allergy and Lung Health Unit @ALHU_MSPGH @UniMelbMDHS @unimelbMSPGH
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12 Oct 2023
Honoured to be elected as a @AAHMS_health fellow last night. Thank you to all my mentors, collaborators and @ALHU_MSPGH for their important contributions to my career. @UniMelbMDHS @unimelbMSPGH
A leader in the life course of chronic lung diseases, she has changed global understanding of how lung disease #COPD originates, leading to new practices, policy and a new field of research, pre-COPD.
Welcome Distinguished Prof @Cdharmage as a new #AAHMSFellow. @UniMelbMDHS
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I am honoured and humbled to have received this award. Thank you @nhmrc for supporting my research career over two and a half decades.
Recipient of the 2025 NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award for leadership in public health, @CDharmage has dedicated her research career to redefining COPD as a preventable life course condition, shifting the focus from late diagnosis to early intervention. Read more on Professor Dharmage’s career in her own words on our website: ow.ly/GCI750YUqAt
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Congratulations on a landmark paper, @ProfJDChalmers
Apr 25
A study 10 years in the making, just published in @LancetRespirMed
How do DPP1 inhibitors really work in bronchiectasis?
We show a novel mechanism for treatment efficacy, by inhibiting Azurocidin-1, a ciliotoxin, DPP1i can enhance mucociliary clearance.
thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
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I am honoured and deeply humbled by Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Leadership in Public Health. Thank you @NHMRC for supporting my career and research for nearly 2.5 decades.
Congratulations to each of the 2025 Research Excellence Awardees honoured tonight for their success and thank you for sharing NHMRC’s vision of building a Healthy Australia. Read the full list of award winners on our website: ow.ly/CYnf50YB1IC
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Shyamali C Dharmage retweeted
Mar 15
Our latest paper just out in @LancetRespirMed
10 unanswered questions about DPP1 inhibition in bronchiectasis
We outline key future clinical and research questions after the approval of the first new therapy for people with bronchiectasis.
Congratulations Jiahui, Chloe and @MereteLong
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12 Dec 2025
Honoured to be highlighted by @nhmrc . Thank you for supporting our research.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is common and treatable but often diagnosed too late. NHMRC funded researcher Professor Shyamali Dharmage (@MDHS_UniMelb) is leading a world first trial of triple therapy to halt lung damage in pre-COPD #WorldCOPDDay
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23 Nov 2025
Stay tuned for Cure-Adire. Time that we put our resources together. Funded by MRFF, this project will commence in early 2026. As the lead, I like to thank all the PIs of respiratory studies for coming together for this grant application.
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Shyamali C Dharmage retweeted
19 Nov 2025
Excited to learn about CURE-AIDRE which is a database of 75,000 asthma samples, decades in the making. It will be the engine to drive the search for treatments and cure. @CDharmage @tomiosifidis
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🔓Now on Peeref: Paternal prepubertal passive smoke exposure is related to impaired lung function trajectories from childhood to middle age in their offspring
🔗: peeref.com/works/87260998
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@CDharmage @mishra_gita @ThoraxBMJ
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I will be speaking on the role of biologics in #COPD as someone who is not funded by pharma
30 Oct 2025
See you all in Philadelphia for #GOLD2025
GOLD has been central to shaping how we define and manage COPD, and its legacy continues.
#COPD
#cureCOPD
@Hananianick @suryapbhatt @donsin4 @PavordIan @meilan_han
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28 Sep 2025
Thanks for highlighting this important work
24 Sep 2025
💬"Exposure to passive (second-hand) smoke🚬 not only harms the children at that time but may also affect the lung health of their future children,” Dinh S. Bui, PhD, and @CDharmage, MBBS, MSc, MD, PhD, @unimelbMSPGH, told Healio.
healio.com/news/pulmonology/…
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3 Aug 2025
Lets promote and advance the field of pre-COPD. Recognising and tackling the pre-disease and early disease states have helped reducing the burden of many chronic diseases, so why not in COPD? thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
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29 Jun 2025
Grateful to @LancetRespirMed for the kind profile. Honoured and humbled to be featured. Thank you.
Shyamali Dharmage: mapping lung health trajectories across the life course - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
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3 Jun 2025
Congratulations Caroline and the team!
3 Jun 2025
🎉 Congrats to Caroline Lodge and her team @daisydai28 @CDharmage @rcatham
@AnurikaDeSilva on receiving a $965K NHMRC TCR – Climate-Related Health Impacts grant!
They will explore HEPA filters to improve quality of life for people with asthma during high air pollution events.
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3 Jun 2025
Congratulations Daisy and the team!
3 Jun 2025
🎉 Big congratulations to Daisy @daisydai28 and her team @NatashaSmallwo4 @CDharmage @AnurikaDeSilva on receiving a $647K MRFF EMCR grant!
Her project OVERNIGHT will use HEPA filters to help reduce exacerbations in older adults with COPD during air pollution events.
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#cannabis smoking causes widespread disruption in blood methylome...something we also see with #tobacco smoking...data from @HLIStPauls @queensu @mcgillu with funding from @CIHR_IRSC
10 Apr 2025
Cannabis smoking makes numerous changes to the epigenome that last even after a person stops smoking, which may negatively affect future health
tinyurl.com/488z3vyk
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29 Mar 2025
Great workshop and great summary document. Very grateful to the organisers for the opportunity to contribute to both.
28 Mar 2025
Executive NHLBI summary now available for the workshop “Bridging the Gap Between Clinical and Basic Research to Understand COPD Mechanisms”. Explore key insights and future directions for advancing COPD research.
Read more: nhlbi.nih.gov/events/2023/wo…
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25 Mar 2025
This is a recognition of the work work done by ALHU in collaboration with our partners. So THANK YOU 🙏
26 Feb 2025
🥳Congratulations to our Head of Unit, Prof. Shyamali Dharmage @CDharmage who has received a 2025 NHMRC Investigator Grant for her program of work titled " A life course approach to early detection and interventions to stop Pre-COPD".👏
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Shyamali C Dharmage retweeted
23 Mar 2025
#tsanzsrs2025
Our PhD candidate @yaoyao_qian is presenting her research titled “ Ten year exposure to household air pollution is associated with OSA in middle aged adults.
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Shyamali C Dharmage retweeted
24 Mar 2025
Coming up, the Ann Woolcock New Investigator Session will start soon. We are so proud that 2 presenters are from our unit, Dr Nur Sabrina Idrose and Dr @DanielJ_Tan ! Wish them good luck🥳
#tsanzsrs2025
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Shyamali C Dharmage retweeted
24 Mar 2025
Excellent talk from Dan 👏
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