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Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 am - Breakfast and poster set up

9:00 - 9:05 am - Introductions - Maria Basil, MD, PhD & Jeremy Katzen, MD

 

Keynote 1:

9:05 - 9:50 am - Nadia Hansel, MD, MPH - "A career investigating environmental health disparities in COPD"

 

Session 1: Disease Modeling

9:55 - 10:15 am - Laura Ferguson, MD - "Using nanomedicine to improve inhaled drug delivery for alveolar disease"

10:15 - 10:45 am - Noam Cohen, MD - "The role of the nasal epithelium in COVID-19 severity"

10:45 -10:55 am - BREAK   

 

Session 2: Lung Cancer 

10:55 - 11:25 am - Sunil Singhal, MD - "Folate targeted imaging of pulmonary adenocarcinoma"

11:25 - 11:40 am - Jeffrey C. Thompson, MD, MTR - "Developing biomarkers of response to checkpoint inhibitor therapy in lung cancer"

11:45 - 1:00 pm - Lunch/Posters

 

Keynote 2:

1:00 - 1:45 pm - Jayaraj Rajagopal, MD - "Airway regeneration, hillocks, and squamous metaplasia"

 

Session 3: Airways Biology and Disease 

1:45 - 2:05 pm - David A. Hill, MD, PhD - "Dietary modulation of lung macrophage function"

2:05 - 2:35 pm - Erika Holzbaur, PhD - "Organelle quality control: the role of autophagy in maintaining cellular homeostasis"

2:35 - 2:45 pm - BREAK


2:45 - 3:05 pm - John E. McGinniss, MD - "Host-microbiome interactions and chronic lung allograft dysfunction"

3:05 - 3:25 pm - Gina Hong, MD - "Detection and impact of Aspergillus fumigatus airways infection in cystic fibrosis"

 

Keynote 3:

3:25 - 4:10 pm - Steven Rowe, MD - "Opportunities in Diseases of Mucus Cystic Fibrosis and Beyond"

 

4:15 – 5:15 pm - Reception