Faculty
Signaling transduction mechanisms in the vascular system
Epidemiology and pathogenesis of respiratory viruses (influenza, RSV, COVID). Vaccine development. Immunology.
Environmental epidemiology of the effect of air polution on respiratory health
Understanding the pathogenesis of Acute Lung Injury (ALI), a life threatening pulmonary inflammatory condition
Defining molecular pathways by which allergens and particulates activate epithelia and dendritic cells in the lung immune system
Development of the infant microbiome and immune system, and how that relates to development of allergic diseases
Cancer immunotherapy/Host immune response to influenza infection/ Inflammation biology of sepsis
Improve and provide access to care for patients with pulmonary vascular disease
Delineating mechanisms by which environmental exposures during different life stages alter immune function
Genetic and environmental susceptibility to developmental lung injury
In vitro models of human lung and vascular barriers during inflammation
Airway epithelial stem cells in chemical inhalation exposures
Platelets in vascular injury and inflammation
Defining how an aberrant oxygen environment and oxygen-induced DNA damage signaling alter distal lung development, the host response to respiratory viral infections, and promotes cardiovascular disease later in life
Team approaches to patient-centered, clinical and translational investigation in sepsis and critical illness
Chronic lung disease of prematurity and lung development
The mechanisms of lung vascular endothelial cell dysfunction in acute lung injury
Redox signaling mechanism of Proinflammatory gene expression in pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory lung diseases caused by environmental toxicants
Cardiovascular, respiratory, and perinatal/reproductive health effects of exposure to environmental agents, including ambient air pollution
Early detection of lung cancer, toxicities caused by therapies in lung cancer, and the prevalence of lung cancer in women
Innate cell antiviral responses, allergic inflammation, mucosal/airway immunity, vaccine responses
Specificity and role of CD4 T cells in response to vaccination and infection
Neonatal immunology; T cell function in preterm infants
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of heart development, disease, and regeneration; Transcriptional regulation of fibroblast plasticity and cardiac fibrosis
Using statistics in environmental health, measurement error, multiple outcomes, Bayesian inference
Immune responses to respiratory viruses and experimental vaccines
Thrombosis and platelet activation in vascular pathology of pulmonary hypertension; clinical trial design in pulmonary hypertension
