Research in the Emory Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine covers a broad range of topics, including metabolomic analyses of nutritional and environmental factors in human health and disease; the basic mechanisms of lung development and the factors that control lung inflammation, injury, and repair/regeneration; and clinical/epidemiological studies in asthma, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, tuberculosis, and sepsis.
This work is currently funded by federal (National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense), industry and biotechnology companies and private foundation grants. It involves the use of diverse statistical and epidemiological techniques needed for the analysis of large national databases, and for conducting multicenter clinical trials. In addition, it takes advantage of sophisticated basic science methodologies including DNA macro- and microarrays, gene and protein delivery techniques, strategies for the inhibition of gene/protein functions, and models of lung disease using genetically engineered animals.
View a list of pulmonary, allergy, and sleep medicine clinical trials.
 Programs and Centers
Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Philip Yang MD, MS
- Maxwell Weinmann, MD MBBS
- Gregory Martin, MD, MSc
- Annette Kalifeh Esper, MD, MSc,
Alcohol and Lung Biology
Research Lab: Koval Lab (Michael Koval Lab - Emory School of Medicine)
- David Guidot, MD
- Samantha Yeligar, MS, PhD
- Ashish Mehta, MD, MSc
- Bashar Staitieh, MD
- Michael Koval, PhD
- Viranuj Sueblinvong, MD
Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
Research Lab: Lee Lab
Bronchiectasis
Emory Program in Critical Care
Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program
Exposome / Metabolomics
Lab: Clinical Biomarkers Lab Dean Jones/ Young-Mi Go Lab | Emory School of Medicine
Structure, Process and Outcome Research Team (SPORT)
- David Murphy, MD, PhD
- Seema Tekwani, MD
- Jordan Kempker, MD, MSc
- Ankita Agarwal, MD, MSc
- Nicole Herbst, MD
- Jenny Han, MD
HIV and The Lung
Informatics and Predictive analytics
- Andre Holder, MD, MSc
- Sivasubramanium Bhavani, MD
- Annette Kalifeh Esper, MD, MSc
- Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, MSc, PhD
- Gregory Martin, MD, MSc
Interstitial Lung Disease Interstitial Lung Disease | Emory School of Medicine
- Louise Hecker, MS, PhD
- Vibha Lama, MD, MS
- Mohleen Kang, MD, MSc
- Srihari Veeraraghavan, MD
- Lucian Marts, MD
- Adviteeya Dixit, MD
- Alexander Truong, MD, MPH
- Avanthika Wynn, MD
Interventional Pulmonary Interventional Pulmonology | Emory School of Medicine
Lung Epithelial Biology
Lung Transplantation: Transplant Center
Research Lab: Lama Lab- The Lama Lab | Emory School of Medicine
Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary Vascular Biology Program
Post (Long) COVID
Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis
- Laurence Busse, MD, MBA
- Jonathan Sevransky, MD, MHS
- Andre Holder, MD, MSc
- Ankita Agarwal, MD, MSc
- Carmen Polito, MD, MSc
- Gregory Martin, MD, MSc
- Annette Kalifeh Esper, MD, MSc
Respiratory Infections, Tuberculosis and Special Pathogens
Sleep Center
Labs Engaged in Research
- Clinical Biomarkers Lab – Dean Jones/ Young-Mi Go Lab
- STaGE – Laurence Busse, MD, MBA
- E-CIRC – Jonathan Sevransky, MD, MHS
- EPICC – Annette Kalifeh Esper, MD, MSc
- McKelvey Lung Transplant– The Lama Lab
- NETEC – Gavin Harris, MD, Lindsay Busch, MD
Clinical and Research Centers
- Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center
- Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
- Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis
- Emory Interstitial Lung Diseases Center
- Emory Program in Critical Care
- Interventional Pulmonology Program
- McKelvey Lung Transplant Center
- Pulmonary Hypertension Center for Translational Research in the Lung
- Vascular Biology
- Fluid Therapy in Shock Program