Pulmonary Biology
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Co-Directors

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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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Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Lung development

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
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Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Development of heart, lung, and vasculature; human induced pluripotent stem cells; organoid; high-throughput drug screening; human genetics Visit the...
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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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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Yifei Miao, MBBS, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Organoids; human pluripotent stem cell; congenital cardiac and pulmonary defect; single ventricle defects; epigenetic regulation
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Anne-Karina Theresia Perl, MS, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis
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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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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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William J. Zacharias, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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