BU Pulmonary

✨ Pulmonary Spotlight ✨ Congratulations to Assistant Professor Anica Law for receiving her first R01 from the NIH/NHLBI! #pulmonary

✨ Pulmonary Spotlight ✨ Professor Yang Jin, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a new R01 from the NIH/NHLBI for her project titled, “Novel mechanistic insights of inflammation and organ injury.” Read more here: www.bumc.bu.edu/pulmonarycen... #pulmonary

Thank you to Dr Michael Longaker for coming to give our Mary Williams Lecture in Cell Biology!

And of course congratulations to our trainees!

Congratulations to our wonderful #Pulmonary Center members who received awards during Evans Days last week! 🎉 @bumedicine.bsky.social

BU Pulmonary Center’s PhD candidate, Elise Armstrong (Mizgerd lab), was recently awarded the NIH NHLBI Predoctoral F31 Award for her project titled, “Lung interstitial macrophage remodeling during and after recovery from pneumococcal respiratory injection.” Congratulations!

Thank you to our Sue Kim Hanson speaker, Dr Ann Rothstein, for the wonderful presentation and engaging conversation!

Thank you to Dr Jacqueline Kimmey from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social for coming to speak for us today for our Trainee Nominated Lecture!

Happy to be sharing our work on airway cell transportation at the 2025 GRC Lung Development, Injury, and Repair Conference!

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Congratulations to Jonathan Chang, who has been awarded a PFF Scholars grant from the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation!

Congrats to our own Meenakshi Lakshminarayanan for being awarded Distinguished Staff of the Month. She is incredibly important to us! www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/news-e...

Congrats!

Check out our newest paper, published online in AJRCMB!

www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Our trainees gave some great presentations at @atscommunity.bsky.social ! #ats2025

Just a few of the amazing presentations given and awards received by our faculty! @atscommunity.bsky.social @anicalaw.bsky.social @allanwalkey.bsky.social @katrinatraber.bsky.social #ats2025

We had a blast at @atscommunity.bsky.social unity last week! Photos of our trainee and faculty presentations & awards to come. In the meantime, enjoy this photo of everyone enjoying themselves at our alumni reception. 🥰 #ats2025

@anicalaw.bsky.social won the Early Career Achievement Award at the Critical Care Assembly on Monday night! @atscommunity.bsky.social Our previous faculty Allan Walkey won the Mid-Career Achievement Award as well. #ats2025

Divya Shankar gave an amazing presentation yesterday morning! @atscommunity.bsky.social #ats2025

The best group of colleagues and friends. #ATS2025

#ATS2025! Come learn about my work on airway epithelial cell engraftment.

Poster discussion session at 215pm PDT Moscone West room 2002.

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Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year Regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for his work in pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources

#ProudtoBU: Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton has been named BU’s Innovator of the Year! 🎉

The regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources. Congratulations, Darrell!

We are so proud of our director, @kottond.bsky.social, for being awarded BU’s Innovator of the Year!

Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year Regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for his work in pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources

🎉 Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton is BU’s Innovator of the Year:
www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Rural health study is told it’s losing federal funds, and other major heart studies are worried A federal health study that was examining the high burden of chronic disease in rural areas learned its funding has been cut off.

"‘You talk about chronic disease, you talk about the rural people, but then why do you cut the RURAL study?’" www.statnews.com/2025/04/25/r...

The 78th Massachusetts Thoracic Society annual meeting had great BUMC representation; we had a record number of fellows and trainees (approx. 30) attend. Thanks to BU associate professor and MTS President Finn Hawkins for his efforts!

The ATS is pleased to recognize Lauren Kearney, MD, as the 2025 Ziskind Clinical Research Scholar Award winner. Dr. Kearney aims to advance early detection of lung cancer, increase access to preventive care and treatment, and reduce health disparities.

Read more: www.thoracic.org/professional...

Thank you to Nadia Hansel, MD for speaking at our annual Gordon Snider Lecture last week! @nadiahanselmd.bsky.social @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social

What a fantastic Mass Thoracic Society meeting this year. Thank you to MTS President Dr. Finn Hawkins @BUPulmonary for leading an outstanding day of lung 🫁 clinical and research presentations!

We are happy to announce Kara Vasilew as the winner of the 2025 Kayla Bell Citizenship Award! This award was established to celebrate and commemorate Kayla's time at the Pulmonary Center, and encourage others to follow in her footsteps.

Congrats to our poster award winners, Kevin and Braden, for their excellent work at the BU CTSI symposium!