Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep & Allergy

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep & Allergy Research Activities



Faculty Research Interests:

Kristina Bailey, M.D.

• Alcohol & innate immunity of the lung
  
  Bailey Research Lab
  

Hesham Basma, Ph.D.

• Lung stem cells

Pulmonary Studies/Stem Cell Lab

Tricia LeVan, Ph.D.

• Genetic & pathogen influences on respiratory diseases
• Functional genomic studies involving gene regulation and single nucleotide polymorphisms
• Gene by environment association studies.

LeVan Research Lab

Xiang-de Liu, M.D.

• Airway firbrosis
• Lung stem cells

Pulmonary Studies/Stem Cell Lab

Jill Poole, M.D

• Agriculturally-induced airway diseases

Poole Research Lab

Joe Sisson, M.D. Division Chief

• Regulation of Ciliary Motility
• Cilia Proteomics
• Mucociliary Clearance
• Alcohol Effects on Airways

Sisson Research Lab

Stephen Rennard, M.D.

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
• Clinical therapeutic trials, and cellular mechanisms of
  disease
• Smoking cessation
• Airway cell biology
• Epithelial cell inflammatory cell interactions
• Airway repair, and mechanisms of peribronchiolar fibrosis
• Bronchoalveolar lavage

Rennard Reserarch Lab

Debra Romberger, M.D.

• Agriculture & Environmental Lung Disease
• Airway repair mechanism
• Clinical pulmonary problems including smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation/airway disease including bronchiolitis obliterans

Romberger Research Lab

Todd Wyatt, Ph.D.

• Airway epithelial cell function under physiologic and disease conditions

Wyatt Research Lab