Category: News

Matthew R. Vogt, MD, PhD, was featured in the UNC Health video “UNC School of Medicine Annual Staff Summit 2025: Celebrating the Impact of Staff. As noted in the description, the video features SOM leaders discussing how “dedicated staff and faculty improve and save lives every day across North Carolina.”...

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for August 2025 included papers appearing in Nature Reviews Microbiology, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet Digital Health. Check out the full list below: Wang C, Bei C, Fan Y, Liu Q, Ding Y, Takiff HE, Gao Q. Conserved mycobacterial...

Congratulations to Phillip Clapp, PhD, who has won a Core Travel Award to attend the 2025 MAD SSCi (Mid-Atlantic Directors and Staff of Scientific Cores) Conference! Dr. Clapp is the new co-director of the Marsico Lung Institute Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core. Information about the upcoming conference can be...

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for July 2025 included papers appearing in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Cell Host and Microbe, and The American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. Check out the full list below: Durfey SL, Kapnadak SG, Pena T, Willmering MM, Godwin JD,...

Matthew R. Vogt, MD, PhD, and Michelle Hernandez, MD, have participated in an ongoing clinical research study that documents the rebound of endemic respiratory viruses in US children and builds the foundation for expediting future vaccines and treatments. Read the full story on the UNC School of Medicine’s news page...

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for April through June 2025 (plus a couple strays from March) included papers appearing in Nature Communications, The American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. Check out the full list below: Stasko N, Arwood L, Jandick N,...

Ronit Freeman, PhD, has earned NCInnovation funding that will support a fibrosis treatment project. Read the full story on UNC’s Accolades page here.

Brian Button, PhD, was interviewed for a Curious by Nature podcast episode called “Taking Mucus from Disgusting to Fascinating.” You can listen to the podcast at the Curious by Nature website here.

Stephen Schworer, MD, PhD, a NC TraCS K Scholar, wants to know how lung tissue becomes asthmatic, in the hope of preventing the disease from developing. Read the full story on the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute website here.

Research conducted by M. Bradley Drummond, MD, MHS, has been highlighted in a number of recent articles concerning drugs for the treatment of COPD. You can read the articles at the links below: “Dupixent: The First FDA-Approved Biologic Drug to Treat Uncontrolled COPD” can be read on the Verywell Health...