Meet the Current Researchers

Hersh Sagreiya, MD

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Automated Lung Ultrasound Using an Unsupervised Machine Learning Technique

Ian Saldanha, PhD, MPH, MBBS

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Weight Loss Drugs and Asthma: Evidence Synthesis to Inform a Randomized Trial

Stephen Schworer, MD, PhD

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mucus Plugging and Regional Heterogeneity in Asthmatic Small Airways

Shiladitya Sengupta, PhD

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Targeting a Novel Mechanism of Immuno-evasion in Lung Cancer

Nan Sethakorn, PhD

Loyola University of Chicago

Testing New Treatments for Lung Cancer That Has Spread to Bone

Divya Shankar, MD

Boston University

How Can We Improve Equity of Care for Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis?

Daniel Shin, MD, PhD

Boston Children’s Hospital

Unveiling Lung Autoimmunity: Role of Regulatory T Cells in Immune Protection

Adam Smith, PhD

Texas Tech University

Resolving the Protein-level Effects of Novel Oncogenic Variants of EGFR

Lorissa Smulan, PhD

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Defining the Mitochondrial Sirtuins and Type I Interferon Axis in Tuberculosis

Dan Spakowicz, PhD

The Ohio State University

Adenosine as a Mediator of Tumor and Tumor-Microbiome Interactions in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Avrum Spira, MD

Boston University-Boston Medical Center

Lung Cancer Interception Dream Team: Intercept Lung Cancer Through Immune, Imaging, & Molecular Evaluation (InTIME)

Brent Stockwell, PhD

Columbia University

Inhibiting Protein That Stores Iron in the Blood Could Lead to New COVID-19 Treatments

Wei Tao, PhD

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Inhalation Delivery of mRNA via Targeted NPs for Lung Cancer Treatment

MuChun Tsai, MD

Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs

MARCH10 Effects on Cilia During Influenza Infection

Tatsuya Tsukui, PhD

University of California, San Francisco

Determining Role of Inflammatory Signals on Fibroblasts in Pulmonary Fibrosis

Daniel Wallman, MD

Boston University

Studying Genetic Variations in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in Understudied Populations

Yanzhuang Wang, PhD

The Regents of the University of Michigan

SARS-CoV-2 Modulates the Golgi Structure to Facilitate Viral Trafficking

Jeffrey P. Ward, MD, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine

Personalized Neoantigen Vaccine and Durvalumab in ES-SCLC

Amanda Wilson, PhD

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

Protecting Asthmatic Children’s Health by Reducing Respiratory Viral Infections in Schools: A Novel Risk Analysis Tool

Jonathan Witonsky, MD

The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco

Disentangling the Social and Genetic Determinants of Genetic Ancestry Differences in Lung Function

Anna Yeo, PhD

Rhode Island Hospital

Dietary Patterns and Asthma Activity in Urban Children

Bonnie Yeung-Luk, PhD

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Association of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number with Emphysema Severity and Progression

Wenjie Yu, PhD

The University of Iowa

Enlarged Airway Glands and Their Link to Mucus Abnormalities in Chronic Airway Disease

Sandra Zaeh, MD

Yale University

Leveraging mHealth Technology to Improve Utilization of Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy among Adults with Asthma

Jacob Zaemes, MD, PhD

Georgetown University Medical Center

A Phase II Study of MGC018 in Patients with Relapsed and Refractory Extensive-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC)

Zhaozhong Zhu, ScD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Integrated Role of Airway-Gut Microbiome and Metabolomics on the Mechanism and Heterogeneity of Childhood Asthma

Etay Ziv, MD, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Reducing Risk of Local Recurrence After Ablation for Early-Stage Lung Cancer