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The Lung Transplant Program at Washington University School of Medicine is celebrating its success in completing 103 lung transplants in 2019! Read more.

Michael Hughes, PhD has received an R01 AR075017-01A1 from the NIH. The title is: “A Systematic Analysis of RNA Editing in Skeletal Muscle.” The aims of this study are to determine whether RNA editing influences skeletal muscle specialization using in silico approaches; testing whether muscle-specific trans factors regulate RNA editing by using in vitro cell […]

Dr. Derek Byers was awarded the Bee Award today for going above and beyond for his patients. Congrats to Dr. Byers!

Hrish Kulkarni, MD, MSCI has received a K08 from the NIH. His project title is C3 Mitigates Epithelial Injury in Pneumonia. The project period will be from 09/01/2019 to 08/31/2024.

Andrew Michelson, MD, WU Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow, was recently awarded a travel stipend to attend the June 1 “Un-Meeting: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Translational Science” by the Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC) at the University of Rochester Medical Center. CLIC, which serves as the coordinating center for the […]

Dr. Laneshia Tague has received a KL2 award with a July 1st, 2019 appointment start. The grant title is “Pharmacogenetic-based Mycophenolate Dosing to Improve Lung Transplant Outcomes”.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, with his collaborating PI, has been awarded a $50,000/one year award for his research project through the SPIRiT funding program. The SPIRiT (Sharing Partnership for Innovative Research in Translation) consortium is a partnership between Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) sites including: Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of […]

In March 2019, Steven Brody, MD has received a new R01 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. His project title is: “Cellular and Molecular Features of Gene Mutations in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia.”

Michael J. Holtzman, MD received an Outstanding Investigator Award entitled “Defining and Controlling Airway Disease” from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This Project aims at reprogramming epithelial stem cells in the lung to understand and prevent respiratory airway diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The award […]

Colleen McEvoy, MD an Assistant Professor in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has received an award from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital to create a single-site clinical data registry of patients in the BMT and Oncology Intensive Care Unit.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, an Instructor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has received a Biomedical Research Award from the American Lung Association to investigate the role of complement protein C3 in severe pneumonia.

Kayla Berry, MSTP Student in Dr. Brett’s lab has been awarded a 3 year MD/PhD F30 Predoc Fellowship from the NIH for her project titled “Molecular Mechanism of TMEM16A Surface Stabilization by CLCA1.”

Kayla Berry from Tom Brett’s lab was selected as one of only two trainee presentations for the ASCI/AAP meeting. MSTP is only sponsoring 19 students to travel to the ASCI/AAP meeting in Chicago. Kayla was selected out of a competitive group of trainees at this meeting.

Dr. Jennifer Alexander-Brett has been selected as the recipient of the Junior Physician Investigator Award from the American Federation for Medical Research. This award will be presented to Dr. Alexander-Brett during one of the plenary sessions of the Translational Science 2018 meeting in Washington, DC. She was also invited to give a podium presentation at […]

Laneshia Tague, MD, Postdoctoral Research Scholar received a Transplant Registry Early Career Award from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation on her project entitled “Association between Allograft Ischemic Time and Adverse Outcomes Following Lung Transplant”.

Thomas Brett, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, received an award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for his project entitled “Targeted activation of TMEM16A in cystic fibrosis airway cells”.

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, Instructor in Medicine, received admission to Washington University’s ICTS KL2 Career Development Program as a Clinical Research Scholar.

In September 2017, Mario Castro, MD, MPH received 2 new research grants. “Washington University K12 Program in T4 Implementation Research” from the NIH/NHLBI seeks to develop a K12 training program to train scholars to bridge research and practice in a variety of real-world settings with a focus on HLBS disorders. “Washington University’s Precision Biologic Interventions […]

In February 2017, Michael Holtzman received a five year research award (R01) entitled “PARP9-DTX3L Control of Viral Infection and Airway Disease” from the NIH/NIAID. The aims are to define how airway epithelial cells control respiratory viral infection and post-viral airway disease and how to translate these results to develop a new class of therapeutics.

In January 2017, Ramsey Hachem, MD received a two year award entitled “Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium” from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics. The aim is to develop a multicenter consortium of lung transplant centers focused on optimizing and standardizing the care of patients with cystic fibrosis through lung transplantation.

In December 2016, Jeffrey Haspel, MD, PhD received a five year research award (R01) entitled “Clock Gene Control of Viral Infection and Asthma” from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Many employees in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine were honored at a Length of Service Awards Service, including: Cindy Lee Sacks, 30 years Sharon L. Heuerman, 30 years Richard K. Barnett, 20 years View the full list of awardees (pdf)