Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for April 2026 (and a couple stragglers from March) included papers appearing in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Nature Communications, and Chest. Check out the full list below:
- Hong G, Vesely EM, Memon W, Walsh J, Hsu JY, O’Dea AL, Dezube RH, Goss CH, Gross JE, Nichols DP, Cramer RA, Zhang SX. Comparative analysis of selective fungal culture media and incubation conditions for Aspergillus fumigatus in cystic fibrosis sputum. Microbiol Spectr. 2026 May 29:e0018126. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00181-26. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42214371.
- Barefoot NR, Henrich JB, Cid EQD, Desai PJ, Bootes K, Vuncannon J, Klatt-Cromwell C, Thorp BD, Ebert CS Jr, Senior BA, Ostroswki L, Kimple AJ. Effects of Sinonasal Mucus Debridement on Nasal Nitric Oxide in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2026 May 28. doi: 10.1002/alr.70192. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42206878.
- Chen Y, Liang J, Liu D, Xu P, Jiang Q, Yang T, Liu Q, Takiff HE, Gagneux S, Gao Q. Long-term spatiotemporal evolution of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China. Nat Commun. 2026 May 27. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-73577-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42204170.
- Kimple AJ, Thorp BD. Editorial: A Contemporary Update of Sinusitis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis & Treatment, Management of Complications and Research Techniques. Ear Nose Throat J. 2026 May 15:1455613261452552. doi: 10.1177/01455613261452552. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42139179.
- Love CA, Kim HH, Rager JE, Tallman KA, Schichlein KD, Porter NA, Jaspers I. Transcriptomic and functional responses of human airway cells to vaped ∆8-THC and its oxidation product ∆8-THCQ. Sci Rep. 2026 May 15. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-53356-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42141046.
- McCullough MJ, Tune MK, Griffith JW, Banten BL, He M, Feng Y, Vincent BG, Milner JJ, Tsagaratou A, Wan YY, Dang H, Doerschuk CM, Mock JR. CNS1-dependent regulatory T cells shape recovery from acute lung injury. J Immunol. 2026 May 14;215(5):vkag119. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag119. PMID: 42201839; PMCID: PMC13215103.
- Richards C, Brunton AE, Choate R, Winthrop K, McShane PJ, Maselli DJ, Knowles MR, Swenson C, Tino G, Aksamit TR, Metersky ML; Bronchiectasis and NTM Research Registry Investigators. Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Mutations and Potential Associations With Increased Rates of Pulmonary Infections Among Patients from the US Bronchiectasis and NTM Research Registry. Chest. 2026 Mar 14:S0012-3692(26)00303-X. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2026.02.027. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41839362.
- Schworer SA, Murano H, O’Neal WK, Randell SH, Wenzel SE, Okuda K, Boucher RC. Reply to Sharma and Sharma: Parsing the Drivers of Bronchiolar Mucus Plugs in Severe Asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2026 May 13:aamag202. doi: 10.1093/ajrccm/aamag202. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42128002.
- Wang Y, Hennessy C, Dobrinskikh E, Humphries SM, Hatakka K, Ackert-Bicknell CL, Godfrey DA, Kelada SNP, Keele GR, Cardwell J, Peljto A, Clouthier DE, Yang IV, Schwartz DA. Genes, other than Muc5b, are associated with bleomycin-induced lung injury. Commun Biol. 2026 May 12. doi: 10.1038/s42003-026-10239-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42120750.
- Guardo C, Xinmeng Z, Gangireddy S, Chao Y, Kerchberger VE, Dickson AL, Pfaff ER, Master H, Yi X, Basford M, Chute CG, Tran NK, Mancuso S, Syed TA, Zhongming Z, QiPing F, Haendel M, Lunt C, Harris PA, Lang L, Ginsburg GS, Denny JC, Roden DM, Wei-Qi W. Multi-scale data improves performance of machine learning model for long COVID identification. Commun Med (Lond). 2026 May 5. doi: 10.1038/s43856-026-01621-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42086912.
- Bengtson CD, Schmid A, Kim MD, Dennis JS, Leeder JS, Zeman KL, Bennett WD, Sabater J, Baumlin N, Salathe M. Oral losartan yields subtherapeutic airway exposure compared to nebulized delivery and fails to improve mucociliary clearance in cystic fibrosis. Front Pharmacol. 2026 May 4;17:1807581. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2026.1807581. PMID: 42158940; PMCID: PMC13180560.