Gene-product therapy a success in cystic fibrosis treatment: review

Professor John Wilson AM is using gene-product modulating
therapy for treatment of patients with cystic fibrosis

by Anne Crawford

Gene-product modulating therapy – treatment addressing gene abnormality by acting on the proteins arising from the gene rather than trying to correct the gene itself – has been attracting considerable scientific attention in recent years.

Monash University’s Professor John Wilson AM, who is using this approach to treat patients with cystic fibrosis, recently reported on the therapy in a comment piece published in Gene Therapy Nature.

AMA Victoria President's Award for Prof John Wilson

Professor John Wilson AM with AMA Victoria 

president Associate Professor Julian Rait at the

23 Nov 2019 award ceremony.

Congratulations to Professor John Wilson AM on winning the 2019 Australian Medical Association (AMA) Victoria President’s Award. The award is a recognition by the AMA President of an outstanding contribution toward furthering the objectives of the AMA through advocacy.

Congratulations to Professors Kit Fairley and John Wilson for Queen's Birthday Honours!

Prof Christopher Fairley, AO

Prof John Wilson, AM

Congratulations to Professors Christopher ('Kit') Fairley and John Wilson for their Queen's Birthday honours!

Prof Fairley was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to community health, particularly in the area of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases, as a clinician, researcher and administrator, and to medical education.

Prof Fairley is the Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre within the Central Clinical School, and has a long and extensive track record of publications on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and the care and treatment of people suffering from those diseases. See more publications.

Prof Wilson was recognised as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to medicine, and to medical research, in the field of respiratory disease, and to professional organisations. Prof Wilson is a respiratory physician and joint head of Alfred Health's Cystic Fibrosis Clinic.

'Clinicians Online' launch: a telehealth initiative

10/01/2013 'Clinicians Online' was recently launched, led by the Department of Health, Victoria and the Cystic Fibrosis service, headed by Professor John Wilson, at the Alfred and Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at Monash. Prof Wilson drove the development of the research consortium and funding for the new service,