Dr Stuart Mazzone

Position

Research Fellow

Qualifications and Awards

PhD

Affiliations

Honorary Fellow- Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Melbourne

Associations

Society Memberships:
Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS)
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
American Physiological Society (APS)
 
Editorial Board Positions:
Cough
The Journal of Asthma and Allergy
Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience (Associate Editor)
 
Expert Committee Positions:
Member of the Australian Lung Foundation Committee CICADA (Cough in Children and Adults, Diagnosis and Assessment)

Contact Details

Location Room 413, Sir William MacGregor Building (64), St Lucia Campus
Mail School of Biomedical Sciences,
The University of Queensland,
BNE, QUEENSLAND 4072
Telephone +61 3365 1074
Facsimile +61 7 3365 1766
Email s.mazzone@uq.edu.au

Biography

I completed my undergraduate and doctoral training in 2000 at the University of Tasmania and was awarded a prestigious NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship enabling post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, USA.  In 2003 I established the Airway Neurobiology Laboratory at the Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne and in 2008 I was recruited to the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Queensland.  I’m currently an NHMRC RD Wright Fellow and have received over 2 million dollars in competitive grant funding to date.  I’ve been awarded the ASCEPT Neuropharmacology prize and the ASCEPT Johnson and Johnson New Investigator award, a Featured Presentation award from the American Thoracic Society and a Ludwig Engel award for physiological research from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. 

Research Interests

My research interests focus on the anatomy, physiology and pharmacology of the neural pathways regulating airway defensive reflexes.  I am especially interested in describing the central processing of sensory-related information arising from the airways and defining how this information is integrated into the central pathways involved in the autonomic regulation of airway smooth muscle tone and the cough reflex.  The overall goal of my research is to describe how the nervous system may contribute to the symptoms of respiratory disease, thereby identifying novel targets for therapeutic interventions. 

   

Selected Publications

Click here to view publications in PubMed

Grants

Current
NHMRC Regulation of airway defensive reflexes - $457,500
NHMRC Identification of brain regions involved in the regulation of coughing - $414,000
UQ Establishing core expertise in ultrastructural morphology - $20,000
UQ Calcium imaging in airway neurons - $37,000

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