Associate Professor Louis Irving

Associate Professor Louis Irving

Clinical Director Lung Health Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne; Respiratory Physician, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; Director of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Director of Clinical Training, Royal Melbourne Hospital

See research profile

Health & Medicine

Childcare centres and car exhaust: A dangerous mix

New research finds that many inner Melbourne childcare centres are built close to busy roads, putting children near dangerous vehicle exhaust and highlighting the need for buffer zones

Health & Medicine

Putting the brakes on lung disease

Researchers have uncovered a molecular pathway that can be blocked to potentially prevent the destructive inflammation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a major worldwide killer

Health & Medicine

New medicine for an old disease

The re-emergence of Black Lung disease among Australian coal miners is raising urgent questions on prevention, screening and treatment that need answering