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Mandy Bush, director of the Respiratory TRACTS core in the Marsico Lung Institute, has been announced as the director of research operations at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry where she has previously served as the Research Program Manager since 2022. Bush will continue to serve as director of the...

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for October and November 2024 included papers appearing in NPJ Digital Medicine, The Lancet – Respiratory Mecicine, and The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Check out the full list below: Arjomandi M, Zeng S, Barjaktarevic I, Bleecker ER, Bowler RP, Criner GJ,...

M. Gregory Forest, PhD, the Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor and director of the Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, stressed the importance of community in accepting the 2024 Jefferson Award on Dec. 13. As noted in the UNC article, “The Jefferson Award is presented annually to ‘that member of the...

A research project co-led by James Hagood, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues will be supported in creating an atlas of the cells and cellular interactions in the nasal and oral cavities, throat, and lower airways of pediatric populations in unprecedented detail. Read the...

Richard C. Boucher, MD, director of the Marsico Lung Institute, was consulted for a New York Times article on the role of mucus in “fighting off infections, shaping the gut microbiome and more.” The article, “Mucus: It’s Snot What You Think,” can be read here.

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for August and September 2024 included papers appearing in Science Translational Medicine, Physical Review Letters, and European Respiratory Review. Check out the full list below: Curtis JL, Bateman LA, Murray S, Couper DJ, Labaki WW, Freeman CM, Arnold KB, Christenson SA,...

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...