airway disease

February 2, 2023

COVID-19 battle begins in the nose

A high upper airway concentration of the virus that causes COVID-19 was associated with changes in gene expression that could impact disease progression, Vanderbilt researchers discovered.

By Sarah E. Glass
From left, Alexander Gelbard, MD, Suman Das, PhD, and Simon Mallal, MBBS, are among a team of researchers searching for the cause of a rare airway disease that almost exclusively affects adult, Caucasian women.
June 13, 2019

Study seeks to expand treatment options for rare airway disease

Armed with $1.2 million in funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are searching to understand the cause of a rare airway disease in hopes of developing better treatments.

By Kelsey Herbers