Research Interest: My role in basic and clinical research has largely derived from my position as Director of the Molecular Biology Core in the Section of Pulmonary Medicine. In that capacity, I have generated and characterized lung-specific overexpressing transgenic and null mutant mice to study in vivo roles and the effect of various cytokines in the pathogenesis of asthma, acute lung injury, pulmonary vascular disease, pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema.