Pulmonary Biology
Meet the Team

Meet our Experts

Co-Directors

Jichao Chen, PhD, MHS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email jichao.chen@cchmc.org

Research Interests

lung development; single-cell genomics; mouse genetics; 3D imaging; artificial intelligence

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Faculty

Paritha I. Arumugam, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email paritha.arumugam@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Gene therapy for inherited disorders; Hereditary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (hPAP)

Brenna C. Carey, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email brenna.carey@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Regulations, management, and coordination of clinical research trials in rare lung diseases, specifically pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP);...

Hitesh S. Deshmukh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email hitesh.deshmukh@cchmc.org

Minzhe Guo, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email minzhe.guo@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Developing novel computational methods and software tools to support single cell multi-omics data analysis and integration for scientific discovery...

Timothy D. Le Cras, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email tim.lecras@cchmc.org

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

Email yutaka.maeda@cchmc.org

Anne-Karina Theresia Perl, MS, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email anne.perl@cchmc.org

Research Interests

Lung organoids; lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis; bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD);...

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