Dr. Merry-Lynn McDonald's (Merry-Lynn McDonald) team at UAB Pulmonary, led by Ava Wilson, provides new insights into the #AntiFibrotic actions of pirfenidone and nintedanib and identifies novel targets for future mechanistic studies. 🎯 ➡️ go.nature.com/3Ii2L9I

Check out our preprint "Novel Genetic Loci Associated with Osteoarthritis in Multi-Ancestry Analyses in 484,374 Participants from MVP and the UK Biobank" medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out new manuscript: Yvonne JK Edwards, PhD Comparative transcriptomics in human COPD reveals dysregulated genes uniquely expressed in ferrets pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36217144/

New Nature Communications paper: Depletion of CD206+ M2-like macrophages induces fibro-adipogenic progenitors activation and muscle regeneration. tinyurl.com/56469e7w

Proud to share our paper investigating the role of genetics in osteoarthritis in veterans was published in Nature Genetics! rdcu.be/c0bna Joe Chiles, MD Ava Wilson Preeti Lakshman Kumar @UABLungHealth UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM) UAB Department of Medicine UAB Pulmonary UAB Medicine Veterans Affairs

Osteoarthritis: Multi-ancestry analysis reveals novel genetic loci associated with the disease eurekalert.org/news-releases/… via EurekAlert!

Ten new genetic loci linked to osteoarthritis found medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-t… via Medical Xpress

Very excited to share the official notice of award for my #NRSA #F31 from @nih_nhlbi! I am very grateful for this opportunity and the support of my mentors (especially Merry-Lynn McDonald ). I can’t wait to share my findings for the genetic epidemiology of comorbid #GERD and #COPD.

Proud we were awarded the UAB School of Medicine Featured Discovery Award for our research on the gneetics of osteoarthritis: uab.edu/medicine/news/…

The Department of Medicine Research Excellence Advancement and Mentorship Council has announced the 2023 Walter B. Frommeyer, Jr., Fellowship in Investigative Medicine awardees. Instructor Joe Chiles, M.D., will investigate "Multi-Omic Biomarkers of Weight Loss in COPD."

Join our lab! Apply for our Scientist II position at the following link! bit.ly/3HXJDQw

Presented our data on frailty and low muscle mass in IPF at @ATS2023 UAB Pulmonary Merry-Lynn McDonald

Congratulations to Ava Wilson for a successful dissertation defense! Next, she will begin a post-doc under John Quackenbush in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Biostatistics department in conjunction with Dr. Dawn DeMeo within the Pulmonary Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

UAB O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Pulmonary will host the 2023 Lung Cancer Update on Saturday, October 28 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Homewood's Valley Hotel. Hear from UAB faculty on lung cancer screening, robotic bronchoscopy, proton therapy, and more. tinyurl.com/3j99cazv

Don't miss the UAB Department of Medicine State of the Division today at noon in Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium! calendar.uab.edu/event/medical_…

Our team is expanding. Hiring a post-doctoral fellow for my lab. Please, share.

Announcing the 6 finalist for the Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology Conference Trainee Communication Award! Vote for your favorite video and the trainee with the most likes wins! #myotwítter #6 of 6: Angad Yadav

Highlight of exciting working coming out of our lab…

I am running for co-chair of the Section of Genetics and Genomics and would love your support. To vote, need to be a current ATS member and a member of the Section of Genetics and Genomics. Can be a member of any assembly. Link to vote is here site.thoracic.org/membership/ass…