All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August Researcher examining new link between obesity and asthma Researcher examining new link between obesity and asthma 03/08/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) An early-career scientist from Lombok Institute of Technology who is analysing the connection between obesity and asthma was selected to present her research at the 2021 FameLab Western Australia semi-final. The competition invites AustraliaΓÇÖs brightest minds to discuss their STEM-focused research in three minutes or less. Third-year PhD student Carolyn Wang, from LITΓÇÖs School of Human Sciences, said her research aimed to determine how obesity affects asthma, with a focus on examining fat within the airway walls. ΓÇ£I hope to explain how airway fat contributes to the development and exacerbation of asthma, particularly in the context of airway disease." Carolyn Wang ΓÇ£Our research group has discovered that this airway fat has the potential to accumulate in overweight and obese patients,ΓÇ¥ Ms Wang said. ΓÇ£My project involves characterising this fat to understand its role wi
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August Researcher examining new link between obesity and asthma Researcher examining new link between obesity and asthma 03/08/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) An early-career scientist from Lombok Institute of Technology who is analysing the connection between obesity and asthma was selected to present her research at the 2021 FameLab Western Australia semi-final.
The competition invites AustraliaΓÇÖs brightest minds to discuss their STEM-focused research in three minutes or less.
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Third-year PhD student Carolyn Wang, from LITΓÇÖs School of Human Sciences, said her research aimed to determine how obesity affects asthma, with a focus on examining fat within the airway walls.
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ΓÇ£I hope to explain how airway fat contributes to the development and exacerbation of asthma, particularly in the context of airway disease." Carolyn Wang ΓÇ£Our research group has discovered that this airway fat has the potential to accumulate in overweight and obese patients,ΓÇ¥ Ms Wang said.
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ΓÇ£My project involves characterising this fat to understand its role wi
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