Associate Professor
Harvard University
I am an Associate Professor of Airway Biology in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I have extensive expertise in airway epithelial cell biology, toxicology, mechanobiology, and asthma. My research focuses on unraveling the molecular, cellular, and biophysical mechanisms underlying pathological changes in airway epithelial cells that drive the progression of airway diseases.
My laboratory investigates how mechanical stress imposed on airway epithelial cells during asthma exacerbations drives and potentiates airway remodeling, a hallmark of asthma. My work has uncovered the critical role of mechanical stress in regulating diverse cellular dynamics in airway epithelial cells, including collective cell migration and the release of disease mediators and extracellular vesicles. Additionally, my lab explores the mechanisms by which emerging environmental chemicals cause cellular damage and alter inflammatory status of airway epithelial cells. The overarching goal of my research program is to define the role of the airway epithelium in the regulation of airway inflammation in response to patholigcal and envionenmental insults.
I serve as a member of the editorial boards for the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology and the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.
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Environment Impact on Airway Epithelial Homeostasis
Thursday, June 26, 2025
2:10pm - 2:35pm East Coast USA Time
