Richard C. Boucher, MD, director of the Marsico Lung Institute, was consulted for a New York Times article on the role of mucus in “fighting off infections, shaping the gut microbiome and more.” The article, “Mucus: It’s Snot What You Think,” can be read here.
Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for August and September 2024 included papers appearing in Science Translational Medicine, Physical Review Letters, and European Respiratory Review. Check out the full list below: Curtis JL, Bateman LA, Murray S, Couper DJ, Labaki WW, Freeman CM, Arnold KB, Christenson SA, Alexis NE, Kesimer M, Boucher … Read more
Matthew Wolfgang, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and member of the UNC Marsico Lung Institute, will co-lead a project in which researchers hope to leverage mucus to address antibiotic resistance and chronic lung diseases. Read the full story here.
A new study led by Elise Hickman, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology at the UNC School of Medicine, suggests that e-cigarette and cigarette use changes the microbiome in the nose and makes users more susceptible to respiratory diseases and infections. Read the full … Read more
Novant Health has announced that it has, in collaboration with UNC Health and the UNC School of Medicine, awarded $1million to launch two clinical trials in North Carolina. One of the trials, co-led by Michelle Hernandez, MD, aims to reduce “health disparities for children with asthma.” The Novant Health article detailing the announcement and the … Read more
Thomas Egan, MD, MSc, is a co-corresponding author on a paper that has “established a suite of parameters that can be determined using ultrasound to quantitatively measure different physical characteristics of the lung.” The paper, “Lung quantitative ultrasound to stage and monitor interstitial lung diseases,” was published in Scientific Reports and can be read here. … Read more
Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for July 2024 (and a couple strays from June) included papers appearing in Science Immunology, FEBS Journal, and PLoS Pathogens. Check out the full list below: Fiamingo M, Bailey A, Toler S, Lee K, Oshiro W, Yoo B, Krantz T, Evansky P, Davies D, Gilmour MI, … Read more
Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for June 2024 included papers appearing in Nature Communications, Cell Host & Microbe, and Cells. Check out the full list below: Furtado KL, Plott L, Markovetz M, Powers D, Wang H, Hill DB, Papin J, Allbritton NL, Tamayo R. Clostridioides difficile-mucus interactions encompass shifts in gene … Read more
On the Chair’s Corner with Dr. Ron Falk podcast, Dr. Falk invited M. Bradley Drummond, MD, MHS, a UNC pulmonologist, to discuss the chronic inflammatory lung disease commonly known as COPD. You can listen to the podcast here.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a first-in-human clinical trial to determine the safety and efficacy of an experimental monoclonal antibody against enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). UNC School of Medicine’s Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD, was a postdoctoral fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at VUMC when he co-led the development of monoclonal antibody therapies against EV-D68. Read … Read more