Category: News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for May 2024 (and a few that didn’t make the previous list for April) included papers appearing in Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists USA, and the Journal of Leukocyte Biology. Check out the full list below: Pleasants...

Thomas M. Egan, MD, MSc, and other Carolina researchers have created a dissolvable, ultra-elastic adhesive patch to deliver therapeutics that promote healing. Read the full story here.