Areas of investigation
The following is a partial list of areas being actively studied by Pulmonary Center investigators, including some of the faculty members who are leading such pursuits:
Adaptive immunity in the lungs (Center, Mizgerd, Maglione, Remick)
Allergic airways disease (Center, Chen, Cohen, Little, O’Connor, Remick)
Alpha-1 antitrypsin disease (Kaserman, Kotton, Wilson)
Alveolar epithelial cells (Brody, Head, Ikonomou, Kotton, Mizgerd, Rock, Seaton, Tagne)
Alveolar macrophages (Bosmann, Fine, Jin, Jones, Kramnik, Mizgerd, Quinton, Wilson)
Amyloidosis (Berk)
ARDS (Bosmann, Fine, Jones, Mizgerd, Quinton, Traber, Walkey)
Asthma (Center, Chen, Cohen, O’Connor, Remick)
Bioinformatics (Billatos, Jones, Lenburg, Rock, Spira, Steiling)
Cigarette smoking (Brody, O’Connor, Schembri, Spira, Steiling)
Clinical trials (Berk, Farber, Kathuria, Klings, Schembri, Theodore, Walkey)
Conducting airway epithelial cells (Brody, Chen, Fine, Hawkins, Ikonomou, Jones, Kotton, Rock)
COPD (Brody, Kotton, O’Connor, Rinne, Schembri, Spira, Steiling, Wilson)
Directed differentiation of lung cells (Hawkins, Ikonomou, Kaserman, Kotton, Rock, Wilson)
Epidemiology (O’Connor, Walkey, Wiener)
Epithelial immune function in the lung (Jin, Hartshorn, Jones, Mizgerd, Quinton, Traber)
Evidence synthesis and methodology (Walkey, Wiener, Wilson)
Gene therapy for lung disease (Kotton, Wilson)
Improvement and implementation science (Kathuria, Murphy, Rinne, Walkey)
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells (Hawkins, Ikonomou, Kaserman, Kotton, Maglione, Mostaslovsky, Murphy, Wilson)
Influenza, RSV, and other respiratory viruses (Fearns, Hartshorn, Mizgerd, Rock)
Innate immunity in the lungs (Bosmann, Jin, Jones, Kramnik, Mizgerd, Quinton, Traber)
Interstitial lung disease (Bosmann, Center, Fine, Goldstein, Hawkins, Kotton, Maglione)
Lung cancer (Brody, Grinstaff, Iaccarino, Kathuria, Spira, Steiling, Wiener)
Lung development (Brody, Chen, Fine, Hawkins, Ikonomou, Kotton, Rock, Tagne)
Lung injury (Bosmann, Jin, Mizgerd, Quinton, Traber, Walkey)
Lung regeneration (Ikonomou, Kotton, Rock)
Lung resident memory lymphocytes (Mizgerd)
Neutrophils (Bosmann, Hartshorn, Mizgerd, Quinton, Traber)
Organoids and organogenesis (Chen, Hawkins, Ikonomou, Kotton, Rock)
Outcomes and comparative efficacy (Iaccarino, Rinne, Walkey, Wiener)
Pneumococcal infections (Maglione, Mizgerd, Pelton)
Pneumonia (Bosmann, Hamer, Jones, Maglione, Mizgerd, Pelton, Quinton, Remick, Traber, Walkey)
Primary Immunodeficiency (Maglione)
Pulmonary hypertension (Farber, Klings, Trojanowska)
Sepsis (Bosmann, Quinton, Remick, Walkey)
Sickle cell disease (Klings)
Smoking cessation (Kathuria, Wiener)
Smooth muscle cells (Chen, Fine)
Stem cell biology and iPS cells (Ikonomou, Kotton, Mostaslovsky, Murphy, Wilson)