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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care

Research Programs


UMMC's Pulmonary Program ranked as one of the nation's 50 best by U.S. News & World Report's 2010 "Best Hospitals" survey.

The Division has a varied and growing research program in a number of important areas. These include both Basic and Clinical Sciences.

A brief description and appropriate links are available for each program by selecting any of the links below:

Basic Research Programs:

  1. Acute Lung Injury
  2. Asthma
  3. Innate Immunity of the Lung
  4. Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis
  5. Inflammation Research Group
  6. Mucosal Biology Research Center
  7. Sepsis
  8. Cardiac Effects of Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia
  9. Cardiopulmonary Genomics

Clinical Research Programs:

  1. Effects of mechanical ventilation
  2. Effects of Anti-TNF therapy in COPD
  3. Pharmacogenetics of asthma/Corticosteroid resistance
  4. University of Maryland Airway Research Center
  5. National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT)
  6. Mechanisms of Interstitial Lung Disease
  7. Feasibility of Retinoic Acid in the Treatment of Emphysema (FORTE)
  8. COPD Clinical Research Network
  9. Lung Cancer
  10. Combined Medical-Surgical Critical Care Clinical Research Program

This page was last updated on: August 3, 2010.

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