Asthma Research
Meet the Team

Meet Our Experts

In the Division of Asthma Research, we have assembled a highly collaborative multi-disciplinary team focused on creating new standards for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma, through novel clinical findings and cutting edge exploratory and translational research. Our goal is to improve the health of children with asthma through a combination of clinically relevant research designed to delineate the mechanisms underlying asthma, as well as the biological basis for individual variations in asthma presentation, treatment response and outcomes.

Faculty

Research Interests
Community engaged participatory research; health promotion; health literacy; science literacy; citizen science; asthma; cancer.

Tesfaye B. Mersha, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Quantitative and statistical genetics and genomics; genetic linkage, association and admixture analysis; expression analysis; network and pathway...

Ronald Panganiban, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of gene-environment interplay in allergic disease; allergic diseases such as asthma and atopic dermatitis;...

Latha Satish, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Atopic dermatitis

Michael G. Sherenian, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Atopic dermatitis (eczema); asthma; food allergies; allergic rhinitis; fibrosis; genetic basis of allergic disease