Archive: 2009
| Assistant Professor Matthew Jones and colleagues publish in Nature Cell Biology a novel method cells use to regulate cytokine expression, based on uridylation of microRNAs by the enzyme Zcchc11. |
| Associate Professor Darrell Kotton receives an NIH Recovery Act GO grant to study the genetic diseases cystic fibrosis or alpha1 anti-proteinase deficiency by generating inducible pluripotent stem cells from patients. |
| Associate Professor Avrum Spira becomes the first Chief of a new section within the BUSM Department of Medicine, Computational Biomedicine. |
| Dr. Gordon Snider, who originally founded the Pulmonary Center and was its Director from 1982-1986, received a lifetime achievement award from the Alpha-1 Foundation, which is dedicated to patients with the genetic deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin. |
| Professor Wellington Cardoso and colleagues publish in Development that the Notch signaling pathway shifts airway epithelial cells away from being ciliated and towards the secretory phenotype. |
