Second Annual Awardees of the KARAT Catalytic Grants Announced
William Bain, MD; Faraaz Shah, MD, MPH; Mark Snyder, MD; and Joo Yoon, MD, all of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, received awards to facilitate their transition to R-level funding.
Faculty Honored by the ASCI for their Commitment to Research
Mark Snyder, MD, is among the 50 recipients of 2023’s Young Physician-Scientist Awards. The ASCI Council Young Physician-Scientist Awards recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
Richard Ramonell, MD, is one of 25 recipients of the ASCI Emerging Generation Awards. The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research, giving them access to the Joint Meeting and longitudinal programming over a two-year period.
Faculty Elected to ASCI and AAP Reflecting their Dedication to Biomedical Research
Melanie Königshoff, MD, PhD, ATSF, FERS, professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, was inducted this April into The American Society of Clinical Investigation. One of the top honor societies of physician-scientists, the ASCI honors investigators who have made landmark discoveries in biomedical research to help translate findings in the laboratory or advance clinical practice.
Menthol Flavor Makes Vape Juice More Toxic, Damaging to Lungs | UPMC Physician Resources
Senior author Kambez H. Benam, DPhil, and team’s study suggests that menthol additives could be just as dangerous as vitamin E acetate, which was strongly linked to lung injury in users of e-cigarettes and vapes.
The Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at ATS 2023 | UPMC Physician Resources
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) hosted its annual meeting May 19-24, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Numerous members of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine attended and contributed to meaningful sessions, lectures, and abstracts.
Pitt/UPMC Take a Leading Role in NIH’s Ambitious Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) Program to Identify, Examine, Characterize, Map Senescent Cell Populations Throughout the Body and Across the Lifespan | UPMC Physician Resources
Collaborating with Dr. Toren Finkel on the project is Melanie Königshoff, MD, PhD, ATSF, FERS, professor of Medicine and associate chief of Research in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, and Oliver Eickelberg, MD, FERS, ATSF, professor of Medicine, Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Endowed Chair for Pulmonary Research, and vice chair for Basic and Translational Science.
A Recap of the 2023 Pittsburgh-Ireland International Lung Conference | UPMC Physician Resources
The University of Pittsburgh Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine was proud to lead this conference with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, and University College Dublin, all institutions with cutting-edge respiratory research and clinical excellence.
Faculty Awarded Richard King Mellon Foundation Awards for Aging-related Research
The Division’s Yuan Liu, PhD, was awarded $250,000 for his research “Targeting NAD+ in Late-stage Alzheimer’s.”
The University of Pittsburgh is Part of a National Effort to Advance Long COVID Treatments | UPMC Physician Resources
The University of Pittsburgh and UPMC will expand care for people with long COVID, thanks to a new grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grants, announced last month, are the first of their kind. The department awarded nine organizations funding of up to $1 million per year for the next five years to study science-based best practices to treat long COVID.
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Nationally Ranked for Excellence in Pulmonology and Lung Surgery