Sharon Rounds, MD

Associate Dean for Translational Science, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Sharon Rounds is interested in mechanisms of lung vascular injury in conditions causing pulmonary hypertension and acute lung injury. Her work focuses on the way in which endothelial cells of the lung circulation are injured. Current research focuses on the role of small GTPase post-translational processing in modulation of lung vascular permeability and apoptosis; the effects of tobacco smoke exposure on lung vascular permeability and lung endothelial cell apoptosis; and the effects of acrolein on lung vascular permeability. She is also studying the role of vasodilators in treatment of patients with COPD and pulmonary hypertension.