Alan James

Clinical Professor Alan James is affiliated with the UWA Medical School's Internal Medicine department at The University of Western Australia. His research focuses on respiratory medicine, emphasizing asthma mechanisms, airway remodeling, and body composition-lung function relationships. He has led multiple grants including NIH-funded studies on severe asthma and airway inflammation.

Research interests include asthma phenotypes, lung function decline, and obesity-related respiratory changes. Recent work explores biologic therapies' efficacy in severe asthma and airway fat composition in obesity. He has collaborated on projects like the Busselton Healthy Ageing Study and Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study.

Key grants include the NHMRC-funded phenotyping study (2019-2023) and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital projects on airway imaging (2021-2022). His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and well-being.