Jane Bourke

Jane Bourke is an Associate Professor in Pharmacology at Monash University, leading the Respiratory Pharmacology Group. Her research focuses on developing therapeutic strategies for chronic lung diseases (e.g., asthma, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) using innovative precision-cut lung slice techniques to visualize airway/artery dynamics in situ. She collaborates nationally and internationally, with recent work extending to human tissue studies for clinical translation.

• Key Research Areas: Fibrosis, inflammation, precision-cut lung slices, pulmonary hypertension, viral exacerbations, TGF-beta signaling.

Publications span specialist journals like Thorax, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, and multidisciplinary platforms such as Nature Communications. She serves on editorial boards of Frontiers in Physiology and Scientific Reports.

• Leadership Roles:
  • Executive Committee, Respiratory Structure and Function Assembly (American Thoracic Society)
  • Former President, Asia Pacific Society of Respirology Congress (2017)

Awards:

• American Thoracic Society Neonatal and Developing Lung Abstract Award (2016)
• Fellowships: ATS (2019), TSANZ (2019)
• Vice Chancellor's Diversity and Inclusion Award (2017)

Advising: She actively supervises PhD students and collaborates on projects targeting in vivo and ex vivo models of respiratory disease.