Brett Lidbury

Brett A. Lidbury, B.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (Research School of Population Health), College of Health and Medicine at the Australian National University. His areas of expertise are medical virology, innate immunity, and biostatistics. Research interests include improving the efficacy of diagnostic pathology and biomarker pattern discovery, particularly in relation to ME/CFS and infectious diseases. Earlier research activity was interested in Ross River virus (RRV) pathogenesis, which as an Australian viral suspect in long-term fatigue, lead to current endeavours for ME/CFS chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis. Our work is entirely focused on human biology and pathology, without the requirement to develop an animal model.

CFS/ME Research
Dr Lidbury and his students are conducting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) studies that are ongoing with research participants recruited and assessed by CFS Discovery in Melbourne, and in collaboration with the Hudson Research Institute, Paranta Biosciences, Bio21 Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and John Curtin School of Medical Research. The CFS/ME projects for validation of immune markers are funded by the Judith Jane Mason & Harold Stannett Williams Memorial Foundation and the CFS/ME projects for genetic analyses are funded by ME Research UK.

Awards

 * Nominee for 2016 ACT Scientist of the Year
 * Fellowship to the Faculty of Science, The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.

Notable studies

 * 2017, Activin B is a novel biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) diagnosis: a cross sectional study
 * 2014, Comorbidity of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome in an Australian cohort.

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * Twitter
 * Facebook
 * Website
 * YouTube

Learn more

 * Wikipedia
 * Institution
 * 2016, Meet the scientists - Dr Brett Lidbury