Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100407]Researchers: Dr Laura Weyrich (Future Fellowship)
Brief description Stories from the past: the impact of industrialisation on the human microbiome. This project aims to explore the history and origin of ‘Industrial’ diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and autism. Non-communicable, ‘Industrial’ diseases are rising at an alarming rate in Australia, and changes to the beneficial microorganisms within the human body (microbiota) may be to blame. This project will explore how human microbiota have changed over the past 100 years in response to cultural, environmental, and lifestyle factors linked with Industrialisation. This approach will allow stories from the past to inform modern medical treatment strategies and public health decisions in the future. The project will identify changes in environment, diet, hygiene, and medicine that have altered human microbiota in the past and sparked the Industrial disease epidemic in Australia today.
Funding Amount $756,021
Funding Scheme ARC Future Fellowships
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100407
- ARC : FT180100407