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Professor Gary Anderson is a pharmacologist and immunologist in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He serves as Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, founding Director of the Lung Health Research Centre, and Head of the Lung Disease Research Laboratory. His research centers on the molecular basis of chronic degenerative lung diseases, including severe refractory asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma-COPD overlap, the COPD-lung cancer interface, and fibrotic lung diseases. Key areas of investigation include the role of Src family kinases and their regulators, immune system failure in COPD, pathogenic biomarkers such as serum amyloid A (SAA) linked to chronic inflammation, cancer, and healing failure, and the gp130 system in IL-6 family cytokine signaling that contributes to fibrotic and destructive lung disease.