Stuart B. Mazzone, PhD
Dr Stuart B. Mazzone, Ph.D. is Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne in Australia where he is the Director of the Centre of Research Excellence IMPACT Chronic Cough and head of the Laboratory of Respiratory Sensory Neuroscience. Prof Mazzone is a leading authority on the neurobiology of cough and the brain networks governing pulmonary sensory processing, having published more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific papers in the field. He has served on advisory boards and consulted for many pharmaceutical companies involved in acute and chronic cough drug development, and he is a member of the international advisory board for the European Respiratory Society NEUROCOUGH Clinical Research Consortium, a lead investigator in the European Respiratory Society Task Force on the nomenclature of chronic cough and a past member of the American College of Chest Physicians cough clinical guidelines development panel. Prof Mazzone is recognised for seminal work in animals describing novel vagal sensory neural circuits arising from the airways and lungs and for translational studies in humans that have provided unprecedented insight into how the human brain processes cough sensory inputs in health and disease.