Please join us on Friday, January 24th, for the Eighth Annual John K. Sheehan Lecture In Mucin Biology and a presentation by Burton F. Dickey, MD. Dr. Dickey is a Professor in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. His presentation is entitled "Airway Mucin Secretion: Molecular Mechanism … Read more
Please join us at Duke University on Friday, January 24th, for Kaganov Research Initiative in Pulmonary Medicine and Engineering Seminar speaker Thomas Barker, PhD. Dr. Barker is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology and the Director of the University of Virginia Fibrosis Institute, and his presentation is entitled "Mechanotransduction In Disease: More Than … Read more
Please join us for a presentation by Dean Staus, PhD, a Research Specialist in the Lefkowitz Lab at Duke University. Dr. Staus will talk about stabilizing receptors using nanobodies and other tools, technology that has been utilized to stabilize CFTR for conformational and functional studies. His presentation is entitled “Structural and Molecular Insights into G … Read more
Please join us at Duke University on Tuesday, February 4th, for Kaganov Research Initiative in Pulmonary Medicine and Engineering Seminar speaker Carla Kim, PhD. Dr. Kim is a Professor of Genetics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and her presentation is entitled “Regulation of Lung Progenitors and their Microenvironment.” More information can be … Read more
Please join us for a presentation by Stephanie London, MD, DrPH, a Principal Investigator at NIEHS with a dual appointment in the Epidemiology Branch and Laboratory of Respiratory Biology. Dr. London's presentation is entitled “Epigenome-Wide Association Studies of Smoking and Respiratory Illness Across the Life-Course.” This session will be held in G100 Bondurant Hall.
Please join us for a Children's Research Institute Seminar presentation by Stephanie Davis, MD. Dr. Davis is Chair of UNC's Department of Pediatrics, Physician-in-Chief at the NC Children's Hospital, and the Charles Everett & Katherine M. Brewer Professor of Pediatrics. Her presentation is entitled “Unmasking the Face of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia.” More information can be … Read more
Please join us for a presentation by Ray Pickles, PhD, Associate Professor at the UNC Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center. Dr. Pickles' presentation is entitled “Sendai Virus: A Biological Tool for Probing the Biology of the Airway Epithelium.” This session will be held in G100 Bondurant Hall.
Please join us for a presentation by Judith A. Voynow, MD, the Edwin L. Kendig Jr. Professor of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests include cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and interactions between host factors … Read more
Please join us for a presentation by Edwin K Silverman, MD, PhD, Chief of the Channing Division of Network Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Silverman’s clinical interests include alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). His research uses a variety of genetic analysis … Read more
Please join us for The Department of Pediatrics & Division of Gastroenterology Research Seminar for Faculty Candidate speaker John Eisses, MD, PhD. Dr. Eisses is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Co-Director of the Children’s Pancreas Center in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His presentation is entitled … Read more