Previously Funded Researchers

In Su Cheon, PhD

University of Virginia

How Certain Immune Responses Can Lead to COVID-19 After Viral Pneumonia

Joe Chiles, MD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Active Weight Loss Monitoring for Early Rehabilitation Referral in the Outpatient with COPD

Soo Jung Cho, M.D.

Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Why Are Older People More Susceptible to Fibrotic Lung Disease?

Bina Choi, MD

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Proteomics Signatures of Quantitative Interstitial Abnormalities and Impaired Respiratory Health

Chen-Hua Chuang, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Molecular Biography of Lung Cancer Metastasis

Sangwoon Chung, PhD

The Ohio State University

Preventing neutrophilic inflammation in severe asthma by targeting ETosis

Geoffrey Clark, PhD

University of Louisville Research Foundation

Determining How New RAS Inhibitor Works Against Lung Cancer

Sarah Clark, PhD

University of Colorado

Using Probiotics to Improve Pneumonia Treatment  

Suzanne Cloonan, Ph.D.

Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

How Genes Influence Development of Cigarette Smoke-Induced COPD

Bria Coates, MD 

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago 

Why Does SARS-CoV-2 Rarely Cause Severe Disease in Children?

J. Robert Coleman, Ph.D.

State University of New York

New Streptococcus Pneumonia Vaccine Would Protect Against All Strains

Tiziana Corsello-Gorgun, PhD

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Role of Airway Derived Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in Respiratory Viral Infections

Maria Cortez, Ph.D.

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Overcoming Lung Cancer Immunotherapy Resistance

Ahmet Coskun, PhD

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Revealing How Immune Cells Specialize in Response to Lung Cancer Cells

Catherine Crosby, Ph.D.

La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology

How Immune Cell Helps Protect Body from Bacteria that Infects the Lung

Kristina Crothers, M.D.

University of Washington, Seattle

Communicating Results of Lung Cancer Screening to Patients

Miranda Curtiss, MD, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

CXCR5/Chi3l1 axis regulates allergic disease

Suellen D`Arc dos Santos Oliveira, PhD

University of Illinois at Chicago

Role of Caveolin-1 and BMPRII Short Form in Pulmonary Vascular Homeostasis

Ana Patricia da Silva Gomes, PhD

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

Understanding the Effect of the Aging Process on Lung Cancer Treatment

Rachel Damico, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Endostatin-Axis in Emphysematous Remodeling in COPD

Vinicio De Jesus Perez, M.D.

Stanford University

How Blood Vessel Cells Promote Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Brandon DeKosky, PhD

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.

Molecular analysis of antibody responses associated with COVID-19 respiratory distress

Gina DeNicola, Ph.D.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Changes in Cell Signaling Pathway Could Shed Light on Lung Cancer

Tushar Desai, M.D., MPH

Stanford University

Genetic Tools Help Shed Light on Lung Cancer Progression

Jessy Deshane, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Probiotics and Insulin Resistance in Obese Asthmatics

Priyadharshini Devarajan, PhD

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

What Precursors Become Lung-Resident CD4 Memory that Protect Against Respiratory Infections or Cause Lung Pathology?

Navneet Dhillon, PhD

University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc.

Distinguishing Long COVID-19 Patients Through Proteins of Circulating Extracellular Vesicles

Taylor Doherty, M.D.

University of California, San Diego

Seeking Better Understanding of Allergic Asthma

Jasmine Dowell, MD

The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.

Mechanistic Role of the Beta-2 Receptor and Renin-Angiotensin System in Hyperoxia-induced Airway Resistance in Rat Pups

Brad Drummond, MD

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

New Way to Analyze CT Scans to Determine Presence of Emphysema