Miranda Ween
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
Dr Ween in Completed her PhD in 2010 in Cancer biology and then undertook a postdoctoral position in the Research Centre for Infectious Diseases with a focus on lung pathogenic bacteria and metal biology. In 2015, Dr Ween was invited to join the Chronic Inflammatory Lung Disease Laboratory. Here she investigates how smoking affects inflammation in the lung, and the ability of macrophages to phagocytose lung pathogenic bacteria. Dr Ween also studies the mechanisms into COPD, a lung disease which affects up to 1.5 million Australians. She has also established herself as an Australian pioneer in E-cigarette research, and was invited to present to the SA Parliamentary enquiry into E-cigarettes in 2016.
Research Interest
Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc
