Westmead. NHMRC awards four grants

The Westmead Millennium Institute’s research team at the Storr Liver Unit has secured four project grants, from the National Health and Medical Research Council, for work focused on treatments for liver disease, including liver cancer and hepatitis C. is celebrating a major success following the announcement of grants for 2011. Working on the project will be Mark Douglas, a specialist who runs the viral hepatitis service at Blacktown Hospital. In other projects, led by Dr Lionel Hebbard, Dr Jianhua Wang and Associate Professor David Booth, researchers will investigate the underlying mechanisms for the development of liver cancer, liver scarring and liver disease in hepatitis C.