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Our laboratory has two areas of interest – eicosanoid biology and molecular clocks.
In the case of eicosanoids, we are interested in the role they play in modulating the immune response in atherosclerosis and cancer, the promotion and restraint of cardiopulmonary fibrosis, in the response to viral infection and in stem cell biology. We are interested in the many factors that contribute to variability in the response to NSAIDs, including the microbiome, genomics, time of drug administration and metabolomics; the use of dynamic and network-based modelling to study drug response and the use of AI and machine learning approaches to develop paradigms predictive of efficacy and risk.
In the case of clocks, we are interested in how a decline in oscillatory function may contribute to age related phenotypes. We are integrating multiple remote sensing approaches with multi-omics analyses to characterize the human chronobiome and to identify time dependent networks that decline with age. Besides affording insight into the trajectory of aging this may afford the opportunity to obtain, in an unbiased fashion, mechanistic insights into time dependent disease phenotypes, such as non-dipping hypertension.
Publications
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The regulation of COX-2, ABCA1, and ABCG1 by the lncRNA PACERR links the inflammatory response and cholesterol homeostasis.
Cell reports. 2026 Sep 3;45(9):117934; Authors: Hennessy EJ, Tanosaki T, Lordan R, Tang SY, Shuvaev VV, Ghosh S, Das US, Joshi R, Meng H, Snouwaert JN, Winter H, Maegdefessel L, Koller BH, FitzGerald GA -
FBiosynthesis and analytics of specialized pro-resolving mediators: facts and faults.
Journal of lipid research. 2026 Aug 28;:101133; Authors: Schebb NH, Kühn H, Kampschulte N, Flamand N, Peters-Golden M, Jakobsson PJ, Claesson HE, Weylandt KH, Rohwer N, Saul MJ, Proschak E, Brüne B, Garscha U, Maier TJ, Patrignani P, Gijón MA, Schopfer FJ, Gelhaus SL, Gelb MH, Murphy RC, Skarke C, Brash AR, Freeman BA, Blair IA, Gilroy DW, Geisslinger G, Hanson J, Ekroos K, FitzGerald GA, Kahnt AS, O'Donnell VB, Alnouri MW, Offermanns S, Steinhilber D -
Progranulin deficiency-induced lysosomal dysfunction drives maladaptive myeloid cell states through the MITF/TFE transcription factors.
Immunity. 2026 Aug 11;59(8):2164-2183.e11 Epub 2026 Aug 3; Authors: Tejwani L, Heffner CM, Balak C, Skuja LL, Tatarakis D, Rana A, Yu SB, Fitzgerald GA, Ha C, Lunkes de Melo G, Sun EW, Simon MJ, Dugas JC, Chow J, Thomsen E, Sarrafha L, Liang E, Gould N, Suh J, Sandmann T, Glass CK, Di Paolo G -
A systematic evaluation of the sources of non-uniform coverage in RNA-Seq and limitations of current practices.
RNA (New York, N.Y.). 2026 Jul 29; Authors: Brooks TG, Lahens NF, Mrčela A, Yang J, Purohit S, Naik A, Ricciotti E, Sengupta S, Choi P, Grant GR -
Tidying up aging organs.
Science (New York, N.Y.). 2026 Jul 16;393(6808):244-245; Authors: FitzGerald GA