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Research Activities

Faculty Research Interests:

Kristina Bailey, MD

Alcohol & innate immunity of the lung
Effect of aging on pulmonary health
The effect of cannabis use on pulmonary innate immunity
Bailey Research Lab

John Dickinson, MD, PhD

Adult cystic fibrosis
Regulation of mucus secretion
Asthma and COPD
Lung transplant transition

Stephen Rennard, MD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
Translational medicine including observational and therapeutic trials and advanced clinical trial design
Lung regeneration
Use of technology for remote clinical data collection

Debra Romberger, MD

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

Derrick Samuelson, PhD

Bacterial pneumonia
host-pathogen interactions
gut-lung axis

Tammy Wichman, MD

Pulmonary hypertension

Todd Wyatt, PhD

Airway epithelial cell function under physiologic and disease conditions
Wyatt Research Lab

Highlighted Research

Genetic and pathogen influences on respiratory diseases
Functional genomic studies involving gene regulation and single nucleotide polymorphisms
Gene by environment association studies
Agriculturally-induced airway diseases
Regulation of ciliary motility
Cilia proteomics
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Effects of combined alcohol use and cigarette smoking on surfactant function
How vaping affects the airway epithelium
The effects of inhaled agricultural dusts on bone