Congrats to Patrick Lyons, MD for receiving the Doris Duke Fund

Patrick Lyons, MD

Patrick Lyons, MD recently submitted an application to the Doris Duke Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists program. Dr. Lyons was chosen to receive a grant for his research project. Through the Doris Duke Fund, Dr. Lyons will receive $25,000 per year and the Pulmonary Division will match the other $25,000. We are excited for Dr. […]

Holtzman Lab is Published in JI

Photo Credit: Kangyun Wu

The left photo is PAS-hematoxylin staining of a section of normal lung, and the right is from a section of lung after the development of progressive lung disease long after respiratory viral infection (starting as soon as 5 days and here peaking at 7 weeks after initial infection). In these photos, we are also using […]

Adam Anderson, MD Receives BJC Grant

Adam Anderson, MD

Adam Anderson, MD has received a grant from BJC. The title of the grant is: Development of a Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital Sarcoidosis Center of Excellence Registry. The award period is from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.

Dr. Michael J. Holtzman Receives TTDA Award

Michael J. Holtzman, MD

Dr. Michael J. Holtzman received a Technology/Therapeutic Development Award (TTDA) from the Department of Defense for “Preclinical Development of a New Kinase Inhibitor for COPD”. The 3-year award for $3,928,669 will focus on progressive post-viral lung disease, especially relevant to current public health problems with respiratory viral infections including Covid-19, influenza, and other common pathogens. […]

Andrew Michelson, MD Receives COVID-19 Grant

Andrew Michelson, MD

Andrew Michelson, MD, Assistant Professor in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, has received a COVID-19 grant. The project period will be 07/01/20 to 02/28/21. The title of his grant is: “Artificial Intelligence for the Real-time Prediction of Respiratory Deterioration in SARS-COV2 Infected Patients: A Clinical Triage Tool.”

Health Care Hero, Dr. Patrick Lyons

Patrick Lyons, MD

Dr. Patrick Lyons, Instructor of Medicine in The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has been attending in the COVID ICUs and leading the clinical operations on the ground in these units since March 16. The clinical work has involved admitting critically ill patients with diagnosed or suspected COVID-19, performing urgent critical care procedures […]

Health Care Hero, Dr. Colleen McEvoy

Colleen McEvoy, MD

Dr. Colleen McEvoy, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has provided extraordinary service to critically ill patients. Dr. McEvoy has been maintaining the scheduling and logistical coordination. She is the co-leader of the COVID Critical Care task force. Since COVID-19 is a new disease, they needed to very quickly provide information […]

Laneshia K. Tague, MD, MSCI receives AFMR Award

Laneshia K. Tague, MD, MSCI

Laneshia K. Tague, MD, MSCI has received the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR) Junior Physician-Investigator Award. This award was created to honor young AFMR investigators whose research projects complement an overall program of research, teaching and clinical medicine. Candidates must have submitted an abstract to one of the AFMR Regional Meetings. Applications were judged […]

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI receives Discovery Award

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI

Dr. Hrishikesh Kulkarni (Principal Investigator) received a Discovery Award (Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program) from the Department of Defense for the period of 7/1/20 – 6/30/22. Along with Dr. Andrew Gelman (Cardiothoracic Surgery), they will study how activators of the complement cascade (such as pentraxin 3) increase the risk of acute lung injury (primary graft dysfunction) […]

Hrish Kulkarni, MD, MSCI Receives CDI Grant

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI

Dr. Kulkarni has received an award from the Children’s Discovery Institute. His grant will be for $300,000 for 5 years. The title is “Harnessing the complement system to mitigate acute lung injury.”

Michael Hughes, PhD Receives R01 from NIH

Michael E. Hughes, PhD

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 […]

Hrish Kulkarni, MD, MSCI Receives K08 from NIH

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI

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.

Dr. Andrew Michelson Attends NCATS Un-Meeting

Andrew Michelson, MD

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 Receives KL2 Award

Laneshia K. Tague, MD, MSCI

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”.

Congratulations to the 2019 SPIRiT Awardee Dr. Hrishikesh Kulkarni

Hrishikesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI

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 […]

Steven Brody, MD receives R01 from NHLBI

Steven Brody, MD

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 receives an Outstanding Investigator Award from NHLBI

Michael J. Holtzman, MD

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 […]