Pulmonary Biology
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Director

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Jichao Chen, PhD, MHS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
lung development; single-cell genomics; mouse genetics; 3D imaging; artificial intelligence
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Faculty

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Paritha I. Arumugam, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Gene therapy for inherited disorders; Hereditary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (hPAP)
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Brenna C. Carey, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Regulations, management, and coordination of clinical research trials in rare lung diseases, specifically pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP);...
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Hitesh S. Deshmukh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Minzhe Guo.

Minzhe Guo, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developing novel computational methods and software tools to support single cell multi-omics data analysis and integration for scientific discovery...
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Katie Huff, MD, MS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neonatal nutrition; intestinal failure: intestinal failure associated liver disease
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Timothy D. Le Cras, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pathogenesis of vascular anomalies; vascular malformations; kaposiform lymphangiomatosis; capillary lymphatic venous malformations; pulmonary...
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Yutaka Maeda, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Anne-Karina Theresia Perl, MS, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Lung organoids; lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis; bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD);...
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Debora I. Sinner, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developmental biology; lung development; congenital defects
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Bruce C. Trapnell, MS, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Alveolar macrophage function; molecular techniques using gene knockout, transgenic and conditional gene expression mouse models and non-human...
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Guolun Wang

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Chromatin regulation of cell specific transcription output
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Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Lung development
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Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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Yan Xu, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Yan Xu:  main area of research interests are bioinformatics and systems biology application in pulmonary research. Our current focus is to...
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Amanda L. Zacharias, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Embryonic metabolism; morphogenesis; Caenorhabditis elegans
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William J. Zacharias, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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