{"id":2659,"date":"2019-12-23T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=2659"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:12:31","slug":"scott-randell-phd","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/directory\/scott-randell-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Randell, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Education and Training<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>State University of NY College at New Paltz, BS, 1979<br \/>\nJohns Hopkins University, PhD, 1985<\/p>\n<h3>Areas of Interest<\/h3>\n<p><b><i>Airway epithelial cell biology: stem cells, innate immunity, cystic fibrosis<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s laboratory research focuses on basic cell biology questions as they apply to clinical lung disease problems. His main work recently has been contributing to the NIH NHLBI Lung Repair and Regeneration Consortium, which is examining factors regulating airway and distal lung epithelial growth and differentiation, with a focus on the regulation of stemness and differentiation of the key epithelial cell types. Scott contributes as a member of the UNC team science efforts on cystic fibrosis and aerodigestive cancers and directs the highly respected Airway BioCore (formerly known as the MLI Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core), providing primary human lung cells and other resources locally, nationally, and internationally. He is the inaugural co-director of the Respiratory Block and am the \u201cPhysiology Coil\u201d in the new UNC Translational Educational Curriculum for medical students, and he also teaches in several graduate-level courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education and Training State University of NY College at New Paltz, BS, 1979 Johns Hopkins University, PhD, 1985 Areas of Interest Airway epithelial cell biology: stem cells, innate immunity, cystic fibrosis Scott&#8217;s laboratory research focuses on basic cell biology questions as they apply to clinical lung disease problems. His main work recently has been contributing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/directory\/scott-randell-phd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Scott Randell, PhD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2371,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2659","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_upd_display_name":["Scott Randell, PhD"],"_upd_reverse_display_name":["Randell, Scott"],"_upd_last_name":["Randell"],"_upd_first_name":["Scott"],"_upd_sortorder_override":["on"],"_upd_sortorder":["1"],"_upd_gallery_summary":["Core Co-Director\r\nAssociate Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology and Research Associate Professor in Medicine"],"_upd_no_link":[],"_upd_degree1":[],"_upd_degree2":[],"_upd_email":[[{"email_text":"scott_randell@med.unc.edu"}]],"_upd_phone":[[{"phone_text":"(919) 966-8093"}]],"_upd_address":[[{"address":{"address-1":"1117 Marsico Hall","address-2":"","campus-box":"Campus Box 7248","city":"Chapel Hill","state":"NC","zip":"27599-7248"}}]],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2659\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}