Selected Grants
Role of Protein S-Palmitoylation in TGFbeta Signaling and Fibrotic Lung Disease
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Molecular control of a novel transitional cell state in alveolar regeneration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2029Tau Mediates Microtubule and Mitochondrial Dynamics to Control Cellular Organization and Alveolar Epithelial Repair
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2024 - 2029Alveolar injury and repair in Pompe Disease
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2028ETS-family Transcription Factor Mediated Control of Pulmonary Inflammation Induced by Influenza Viruses
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2028Mapping Cell Tropism and Optimizing Gene Delivery Vectors in Human Airway Explants
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2026 - 2028Ferroptosis and Ferroptotic Stress in Maladaptive Renal Repair - R01
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2023 - 2028Towards therapeutic repair of dysfunctional or ectopic cell states in age-associated degenerative lung diseases
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Calico Life Sciences LLC · 2025 - 2027Regulation of ionocyte cell specification by ASCL family transcriptional factors
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2025 - 2027Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2027Determining the role of TP53 regulation in alveolar epithelial transitional cell state, and the contribution of alveolar epithelial transitional cell state to pulmonary fibrosis
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2024 - 2027Duke Program of Training in Pulmonary ReSearch to Promote, Engage and Retain Academic Researchers (PROSPER)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2022 - 2026Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2021 - 2026R01: Targeting Renal Tubular Epithelial Progenitors in AKI to CKD transition
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2026Cellular crosstalk and molecular mechanisms in the initiation and progression of pulmonary fibrosis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2022 - 2026Deciphering the Spatio-temporal Causes of Differentiation
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative · 2024 - 2026Genome-wide loss of function screens to identify therapeutic targets in pulmonary fibrosis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. · 2021 - 2025Perpetual Organ Preservation and Rehabilitation (POPR)
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2025Mapping the pediatric inhalation interface: nose mouth and airways
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2021 - 2025Pulmonary cell fate and lung repair in rodent and porcine models of chlorine and phosgene inhalation injuries
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2025Genetic and Genomics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Oxidative Stress and Regional Airway Remodeling and Fibrosis in Obese Asthma
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Mechanisms of submucosal gland cell mediated airway regeneration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Discovery Initiative (READDI)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2022 - 2025Targeting ABL kinases to regulate epithelial cell plasticity and regeneration following injury
ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Control of glycome structure and function through galactose epimerase
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Foundation · 2020 - 2024Mapping Epigenetic Memory of Exposure New To Observe (MEMENTO)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2019 - 2024SOX9 Expression Identifies A Novel Alveolar Stem Cell Population
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2022Human Lung Cell Atlas 1.0 - Year 4
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Northwestern University · 2019 - 2022Medical Scientist Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1997 - 2022Systematic identification of AEC2 cell niche components and the conversion of basal stem cells into AEC2 cells ex vivo
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by United Therapeutics Corporation · 2017 - 2021Super-resolution Imaging via Multiple Modalities with the Zeiss Elyra 7
EquipmentMinor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2021Image-Seq: A high-density microfluidic trap array for single cell transcriptome analysis coupled with image based phenotyping
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2020Genetics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1979 - 2020Organization and Function of Cellular Structure
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020To define the role of Sox9 and Sox9+ Cells in Alveolar Homeostasis and Regeneration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2019External Relationships
- Calico labs, alphabet company
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Fusion conferences
- Gordian Bio Inc.
- Gordon Research Conferences
- Herbert Schiller lab, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen
- Institute for Lung Health, University of Giessen
- Johns Hopkins University
- Luiz Fernando Ferraz Da Silva, Marisa Dolhnokoff, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine
- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.
- Raj Kumar Savai, Institute for Lung Health, University of Giessen
- Sanofi
- Shiv Nadir University
- Springer Nature Publishing Company
- Stem Cell Technologies
- The hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
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