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 Circulation Center: Our mission is to understand the causes of pulmonary vascular disease and use this knowledge to create novel and effective treatments for diseases of the pulmonary circulation and right heart.
- Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Group: A multidisciplinary team focused on improving treatment for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other interstitial lung diseases.
- Small Airways Pathology Research Group: Investigating the "origin story" of small airways disease, the vision of this group is to diagnose and treat small airways disease before symptoms develop.
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.
- Kropski Lab: Investigates the mechanisms of lung development, injury, repair and fibrosis with a focus on the molecular origins of lung disease.
- MASLAB: The Multidisciplinary Assessment and Stratification of Lung Cancer Biomarkers (MASLAB) at Vanderbilt Health is a collaborative research program dedicated to advancing early lung cancer detection and precision risk stratification through integrated imaging, clinical, and molecular data science.
- 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.