SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science

[NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery @NM_Lung]

Please join us in congratulating Karen Ridge, PhD (@RidgeLabNU), who was recently invested as the Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Pulmonary Sciences. Endowed chairs represent an important and meaningful recognition from Northwestern University and its supporters for the outstanding contributions of our most accomplished scholars to our missions.

Dr. Ridge has led our division’s research programs in epithelial cell biology for the past 20 years. She has made critical contributions to our understanding of the signaling role of the intermediate filament network and has been a leader in education through her direction of the Kimberly Querrey Summer Research Program and our Training Program in Lung Sciences (T32).

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Scott Dixon, PhD, will present a talk titled "Understanding and Modulating Ferroptosis in Lung Cancer" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJYlm

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Janelle Ayres, PhD, will present a talk titled "Host-pathogen interactions: Harnessing co-evolution to treat disease" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJqvO

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Kim Newton, PhD, will present a talk titled "Targeted Alveolar Regeneration with Frizzled-specific Agonists" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJYlm

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

William J Janssen, MD, will present a talk titled "Macrophage Heterogeneity in Acute Lung Injury" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJYlm

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Francesca Polverino, MD, PhD, will present a talk titled "Immune and Molecular Mechanisms of COPD" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJqvO

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Tien Peng, MD, will present a talk titled "Fibroblast Tuning of the Inflammatory Niche" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJYlm

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Tereza Martinu, MD, will present a talk titled "Mechanisms of chronic lung allograft rejection: implications for improved diagnostics and therapeutics in lung transplantation" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. Info and registration: https://t.co/pNzOiPJqvO

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Jennifer Sucre, MD, will present a talk titled "The 4-Dimensional Fabric of the Lung: Development and Regeneration Across Space and Time" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJqvO

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Xin Sun, PhD, will present a talk titled "Considering the Lung as a Sensory Organ" at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJqvO

[SQ Lung Institute for Translational Science @SQLIFTS]

Ralph Deberardinis, MD, PhD will present the Keynote talk titled “Metabolism and Cancer Progression in Patients” at the Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease Conference. For more information and to register please visit https://t.co/pNzOiPJqvO

[NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery @NM_Lung]

Join us for a Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute Seminar in Respiratory Medicine. Susan Russell, MD, and Ike Okwuosa, MD, will lead "Cardiac Sarcoidosis: It Takes A Village," on August 18. https://t.co/Ut5PW5jhtU

[Ankit Bharat, MD FACS @AnkitBharatMD]

Excited to share a new paper by Drs.
Han/Budinger/Chandel ⁦@NM_Lung⁩ in ⁦@Nature⁩ revealing the role of mitochondria in postnatal alveolar development with significant implications in lung injury responses. https://t.co/hhAESyTLrN

[NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery @NM_Lung]

Congratulations to two investigators of SQLIFTS, SeungHye Han, MD, and Navdeep S. Chandel, PhD, for their recent study published in @Nature. Their collaboration led to demonstrating that mitochondria regulate essential signals for the development of alveolar epithelial cells in the lung. Dr. Han’s labis following up the study by examining whether mitochondria-dependent signaling is disrupted during lung repair after injury resulting in lung diseases like pulmonary fibrosis or prolonged viral pneumonia. https://t.co/xtvP6FklmB