Welcome to the Program in Airway Inflammation

Airway inflammation researchers at UTMB play a major role in disease-oriented interdisciplinary research programs, including the Signaling in Airway Inflammation program project grant, the Proteomics Technologies in Airway Inflammation center grant, and the NIEHS Center in Environmental Toxicology. These programs are described below.

Signaling in Airway Inflammation

This is a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded program project (PO1) grant to investigate the relationship between reactive oxygen species produced by respiratory virus infection or allergens, intracellular signaling and airway inflammation. This program project grant is composed of 5 leading investigators in 3 UTMB departments.
Home page:   PO1 Home
Projects:   Brasier   Garofalo   Casola    Sur    Boldogh
General info:   Asthma Information     Asthma Links
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Proteomics Technologies in Airway Inflammation

This is National Heart, Blood and Lung Institue (NHLBI)-funded Proteomics Center to develop new methods to analyse the spectrum of proteins and protein complexes in the inflammed lung. One of only 10 centers in the country, the NHBLI Proteomics Center is composed of 19 investigators grouped into 7 teams at UTMB in collaboration with the Rice Department of Biostatistics.

NHLBI Proteomics Center Nuclear Proteome Project Protocols Biomolecular Resource Center
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Asthma Pathogenesis Program in the SCEHM and NIEHS Centers

The Asthma Pathogenesis Research Core in the Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine (SCEHM) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is composed of 10 investigators from 5 academic departments at UTMB. Funded by the NIEHS Center in Environmental Toxicology, this group is seeking to understand the role of ROS and environmental agents in asthma

NIEHS Center
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