Archive mid 2010

Pulmonary Center junior faculty have had a wonderful string of recent successes.

  • Assistant Professor Xingbin Ai received an R01 grant from the NIH to study whether heparan sulfate-modifying enzymes are promising therapeutic targets for reversing effects of aging on muscle.
  • Assistant Professor Matthew Jones received an R01 grant from the NIH to study roles of the miRNA-modifying protein Zcchc11 in pulmonary inflammation.
  • Assistant Professor Lee Quinton received an R00 grant from the NIH to study functional interactions between the lung and liver during pneumonia.
  • Assistant Professor Andrew Wilson received a K08 grant from the NIH to elucidate roles of alveolar macrophages in COPD, as well as an award from the Alpha-1 Foundation to explore gene therapy approaches for patients with alpha-1 antiprotease deficiency.
  • Assistant Professor Renda Wiener received a K07 grant from the NIH to study clinical decision-making for pulmonary nodules.
  • Assistant Professor Hasmeena Kathuria received a Lung Cancer Research Program grant from the Department of Defense to study roles of Ets transcription factors in the progression of lung cancer.
  • Assistant Professor Ting Chen received a Physician-Scientist Training Award from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation for genome-wide association studies of sleep phenotypes.
  • Assistant Professor Ross Summer received a Robert Dawson Evans Junior Faculty Merit Award from the Department of Medicine to study roles of adiponectin in pulmonary inflammation.

     

      Well-deserved recognition for up-and-coming stars of the Pulmonary Center!

      Assistant Professor Felicia Chen and colleagues report in The Journal of Clinical Investigation a signaling network essential to lung development and implicated in congenital lung disease resulting from genetic or nutritional deficiencies of Vitamin A.

      PhD student Constantina Christodoulou from Darrell Kotton’s lab receives first prize in the Russek Student Achievement Day hosted by the BU Division of Graduate Medical Sciences.

      The Pulmonary Center had a significant presence at the 2010 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society held Friday, May 14th to Wednesday, May 19th in New Orleans, LA.

      Associate Professor Avrum Spira and colleagues publish in Science Translational Medicine that the PI3 kinase pathway may be useful as a biomarker and pharmacological target for patients with or at risk for lung cancer.