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Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Research

Research performed within the U-M Medical School Department of Internal Medicine Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine has greatly impacted our understanding of basic lung biology, disease pathogenesis and targeted therapeutics. 

NIH grant funding for research within the Division exceeds 13 million dollars annually. Our investigative portfolio is comprehensive, with specific areas of emphasis including pulmonary inflammation, lung injury and repair, fibrotic lung disorders, host defense, lung transplantation, and lung cancer.

New major areas of modern biology have emerged, including genetics/genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, stem cell biology, computational biology, and the microbiome. Researchers in the division participate in large multidisciplinary and multicenter disease-specific programs and networks in interstitial lung disease (IPFnet, COMET, LTRC), COPD (SPIROMICS, COPD gene, LTRC), and Acute Lung Injury (SCOR, SCCOR, ARDSnet).

Emerging fields of patient-oriented research have been added or expanded, including health services research and sleep. Active areas of health services research include long-term functional outcomes in survivors of critical illness, nosocomial infection, delirium in the ICU, health care utilization and health care policy.

Areas of Research
  • Cancer
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • Critical Care
  • Fibrotic Lung Disease
  • Health Services, Outcomes & Policy Program
  • Lung Injury & Repair Reseach
  • Lung Transplantation & Stem Cell Biology Program
  • Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Research Workgroup (MICReW)
  • Microbiome Program
  • Pulmonary Immunity
  • Severe Asthma
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