Research Areas

Basic and Clinical Research at the FIRH

  • Chris Allen, MD, MA, MB, BCh, MRCP (UK), FRCPC - Gastro-esophageal reflux and chronic cough
  • Kjetil Ask, PhD - Protein misfolding in chronic lung disease
  • Gerard Cox, MD, MB, FRCPCI, FRCPC - Bronchial thermoplasty, Pulmonary fibrosis, smooth muscle and neutrophil biology
  • Myrna Dolovich, PEng (Elec) - Aerosol physics, aerosol deposition in lung, lung imaging, ciliary motility
  • Paul Forsythe, PhD – Communication between immune and nervous systems and its influence on the development of inflammation and allergic disease
  • Mark Inman, MSc, PhD, MD - Animals models of allergic sensitization, mechanisms of airway hyperresponsiveness and airway remodelling
  • Luke Janssen, MSc, PhD - Airway smooth muscle biology, ionic regulation of airway hyperresponsiveness, isoprostane biology and vascular responsiveness
  • Neil Johnston, MSc - Epidemiology of exacerbations of asthma and COPD
  • Martin Kolb, MD, PhD - Molecular mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension, TGF-β signalling, clinical trials in pulmonary fibrosis
  • Renée Labiris, MSc, PhD - Molecular imaging of the airways and lung parenchyma, evaluation of aerosols
  • Mark Larché, PhD - Peptide immunotherapy for allergic airway diseases, Treg biology in asthma, vaccine development
  • Andrew McIvor, MB, MSc, FRCP (Edin), FRCPC - Outcomes research in asthma and COPD, dissemination and implementation of guidelines
  • Parameswaran Nair, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPC - Non-invasive measurements of airway inflammation in clinical practice, mechanisms of specific types of bronchitis, targeted therapy of eosinophilic and neutrophilic bronchitis
  • Helen Neighbour, MB, PhD, MRCP (UK) - Assessment of upper airway inflammation, peptide vaccines for allergic rhinitis
  • Paul O’Byrne, MB, FRCPI, FRCPC, FRCPE, FRCP (Glasg) - Mechanisms of allergic asthma and hyper-responsiveness, clinical trials in asthma
  • Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, FRACP, FRCPC, FAAAAI - Epidemiology of asthma, birth-cohort studies of allergy and asthma
  • Roma Sehmi, PhD - Hematopoietic progenitor biology in allergic airway diseases
  • Martin Stampfli, PhD - Effects of cigarette smoke on innate immunity and allergic responses, smoking models of emphysema



 

Health Sciences

Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
Location


McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8S 4K1

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8:30am to 4:30pm

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