Pulmonary Biology
Meet the Team

Meet our Experts

Co-Directors

Jichao Chen, PhD, MHS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
lung development; single-cell genomics; mouse genetics; 3D imaging; artificial intelligence

Faculty

Paritha I. Arumugam, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Gene therapy for inherited disorders; Hereditary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (hPAP)

Brenna C. Carey, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Regulations, management, and coordination of clinical research trials in rare lung diseases, specifically pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP);...

Hitesh S. Deshmukh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Development of heart, lung, and vasculature; human induced pluripotent stem cells; organoid; high-throughput drug screening; human genetics Visit the...

Minzhe Guo, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developing novel computational methods and software tools to support single cell multi-omics data analysis and integration for scientific discovery...

Timothy D. Le Cras, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pathogenesis of vascular anomalies; vascular malformations; kaposiform lymphangiomatosis; capillary lymphatic venous malformations; pulmonary...

Yutaka Maeda, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Yifei Miao, MBBS, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Organoids; human pluripotent stem cell; congenital cardiac and pulmonary defect; single ventricle defects; epigenetic regulation
Research Interests
Lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis

Debora I. Sinner, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developmental biology; lung development; congenital defects

Bruce C. Trapnell, MS, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Alveolar macrophage function; molecular techniques using gene knockout, transgenic and conditional gene expression mouse models and non-human...

Guolun Wang

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Chromatin regulation of cell specific transcription output

Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Yan Xu, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Yan Xu:  main area of research interests are bioinformatics and systems biology application in pulmonary research. Our current focus is to...

William J. Zacharias, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics