Division of  Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Acute Lung Injury and Infection Center

Focused on understanding fundamental mechanisms of lung injury and repair, the Acute Lung Injury and Infection Center integrates research findings in basic biology with clinical medicine. Research within the center utilizes advanced tools in molecular, biochemical, and clinical investigations, encompassing multiple disciplines including basic, translational, and clinical sciences. By joining faculty with diverse expertise in lung biology, immunology, microbiology, molecular genetics, chemistry, computational biology, infectious diseases, pulmonary and critical care medicine, the center provides broad opportunities in training, education, and research.

The mission of the ALI Center of Excellence is to make discoveries that improve the care of patients with lung injury. To achieve this, the Center serves as a central hub for integrating discoveries in basic biology with clinical medicine, develops innovative tools to probe the biology of host resilience following acute injury, and promotes research in acute injury across the spectrum of lung diseases. In addition, the Center fosters a highly integrative network of investigators dedicated to studying lung injury and repair at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organismal, and population levels.

Directed by Charles Dela Cruz, MD, PhD, primary program faculty includes Jonathan Alder, PhD; William Bain, MD; Bill Chen, PhD; Kong Chen, PhD; Michael Donahoe, MD; John Evankovich, MD; Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD; Seyed Mehdi Nouraie, MD, PhD; Prabir Ray, PhD; Keven Robinson, MD; Faraaz Shah, MD, MPH; Tomeka Suber, MD, PhD; Lianghui Zhang, MD, PhD; and Chunbin Zou, MD, PhD.