Research Centers and Groups
- Center for Asthma Research: An interdisciplinary research center with the goal of finding prevention strategies, treatments, and cures for the most common respiratory diseases that impact both children and adults
- Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship (CIBS) Center: The major focus of CIBS is to advance knowledge, education, and models of care for people affected by critical illness.
- The Laboratory for Science and Translation in Critical Illness: The major focus of this laboratory is to define mechanisms of lung and other organ injury in critical illnesses such as sepsis.
- Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group: Dedicated to improving outcomes for critically ill patients, this is a network developed to design and conduct comparative effectiveness clinical trials in critical care.
- Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Group: A multidisciplinary team focused on improving treatment for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other interstitial lung diseases.
- Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical and Research Team: Aspiring to improve overall quality of care and ultimately improve outcomes of patients with pulmonary hypertension, particularly pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare and life-threatening group of diseases.
Research Labs
- Cahill Lab: A research lab run by Dr. Katherine Cahill that focuses on GLP-1R pathway in asthma, mechanisms of inflammation and therapeutic response in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), and the contribution of innate inflammation to adult asthma
- Hawiger Lab: The primary focus of this laboratory, run by Dr. Jack Hawiger, is inflammation, a biological response that links innate and adaptive immunity to blood kinins and coagulation networks.
- MASLAB: Originally created by the late Dr. Pierre Massion, the co-leaders of this lab, Drs. Eric Grogan and Fabien Maldonado, are continuing research on lung tumorigenisis and on using genomic, proteonomic and advanced imaging approaches for identification and validation of molecular determinants of early detection, progression and prognosis.
- Newcomb Lab: Directed by Dr. Dawn Newcomb, this lab uses multi-disciplinary approaches to determine how sex hormones regulate inflammatory mechanisms important in asthma.
- Peebles Lab: Directed by Dr. Stokes Peebles, this lab investigates mechanisms regulating lung inflammation, with specific emphasis on allergen-induced and virus-mediated disease.
- Richmond Lab: The Richmond Lab investigates relationships between chronic inflammation, altered epithelial differentiation, and small airways disease in COPD and constrictive bronchiolitis using basic and translational science approaches.
- The Vanderbilt Interventional Pulmonary Research Lab (VIPR) conducts research activities including: investigator-initialed pragmatic clinical trials; biomedical engineering research in collaboration with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE); lung nodule research; and industry-sponsored trials.