09/01/2023 Carmelissa is now funded by an R01 supplement to promote diversity in health-related research. Parand is now funded by Brown Respiratory Research Training Program T32. Congrats!
08/30/2023 Alina won second place presentation award at 2023 Pathobiology Retreat. Congrats!
08/17/2023 Alina won best presentation award at Lung Development, Injury, and Repair Gordon Research Conference. Congrats!
08/01/2023 Our article “Phospholipid Scramblase-1 Regulates Innate Type 2 Inflammation in Mouse Lung via CRTH2-dependent Mechanisms” is published by the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
05/31/2023 Carmelissa passed her PhD qualifying exam. Congrats!
05/08/2023 Undergraduate students Ashley Choi graduated from Brown.
02/11/2023 Alina won Young Investigator Award at 2023 International Respiratory Medicine Conference in Orlando FL. Congrats!
08/12/2022 Our article Chitinase 3-like-1 contributes to the development of pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension is published by JCI Insight.
06/13/2022 Alina passed her PhD qualifying exam. Congrats!
06/04/2022 Leadership Alliance student John Davies is spending the summer with us!
05/28/2022 Carmelissa Norbrun joined our lab as a PhD student
05/18/2022 CRTH2 Mediates Profibrotic Macrophage Differentiation and Promotes Lung Fibrosis is published by American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, with an editorial.
05/08/2022 Undergraduate students Adam Eberle graduated from Brown.
09/17/2021 We received a pilot project grant from CPVB COBRE to development cell membrane-coated nanoparticles for the treatment of Pulmonary Fibrosis in collaboration with Dr. Samantha Meenach at URI.
05/20/2021 Undergraduate students Erika Nakajima and Ashley Hernandez-gutierrez graduated from Brown.
Emerging drug delivery strategies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treatment is published by Eur J Pharm Biopharm.
03/18/2021 Our article Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome and Lung Disease: Pathogenesis and Therapeutics is published by Frontiers in Pharmacology.
02/18/2021 Alina Yang joined our lab as a PhD student
01/31/2021 Yang Zhou “graduated” from the CPVB COBRE program
12/01/2020 Dr. Parand Sorkhdini Joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate
03/20/2020 Our lab is funded by an R01 grant from NHLBI to investigate the pathogenesis of Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome associated lung disease.