Category: News

  David B. Hill, PhD, Brian Button, PhD, Michael Rubinstein, PhD, and Richard C. Boucher, MD, have co-authored a comprehensive cover-story review, “Physiology and Pathophysiology of Human Airway Mucus,” which sets a reference standard for the field on this topic. The review has been published in Physiological Reviews.

Led by Martina Kovarova, PhD, Miriam Braunstein, PhD, and J. Victor Garcia, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers showed in vivo efficacy of a long-acting injectable formulation of the anti-TB drug rifabutin. Read the full story here.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Meghan E. Rebuli, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, are co-authors on a paper published Tuesday, Aug. 2, in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, titled “Smoking and e-cigarette use: key variables in testing IgA-oriented intranasal vaccines.” Read the paper here.

The UNC School of Medicine is participating in $31-million asthma study. The UNC site lead investigators are Michelle Hernandez, MD, professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics, and Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, professor and vice chair of research in the UNC Department of Family Medicine. Read the full story here.

The American Society for Microbiology selected Miriam Braunstein, PhD, in the UNC Department of Microbiology & Immunology, as a distinguished lecturer for a two-year term. Read the full story here.

With the FDA ordering Juul to stop selling their e-cigarette devices, UNC School of Medicine researchers, led by Ilona Jaspers, PhD, published the first study to compare the respiratory immune health effects of different types of devices. Read the full story here, and a related article from WRAL TechWire here.

M. Bradley Drummond, MD MHS, was interviewed on WRAL News on the effects of vaping and smoking in light of the FDA’s decision to remove Juul e-cigarettes off the market. The video of the interview can be seen here.

James S. Hagood, MD, professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Program for Rare and Interstitial Lung Disease of the UNC Children’s Research Institute and Marsico Lung Institute, has been selected as a Harrington Scholar-Innovator for his work on a therapeutic Strategy for pulmonary fibrosis. Read...

Matthew R. Vogt, MD, PhD, was interviewed for an ABC11 WTVD news brief on the increase of COVID-19 cases in young children. The news brief can be viewed here.

Research conducted by the lab of Camille Ehre, PhD, has been featured in multiple news stories across a range of websites. The research, focusing on asthma, COVID-19, and the cytokine IL-13, was initially published in PNAS by Morrison, Ehre, et al under the title “SARS-CoV-2 infection of airway cells causes intense...