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! @bupulmonary.bsky.social @mjherriges.bsky.social @kottond.bsky.social @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social #pulmsky #sciencesky

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...

Check out our newest paper, published online in AJRCMB! www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1... @mjherriges.bsky.social @kottond.bsky.social @bupulmonary.bsky.social @ats-rcmb.bsky.social @atsearlycareer.bsky.social @ajrcmb.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social

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. @mjherriges.bsky.social @kottond.bsky.social @ats-rcmb.bsky.social #pulmsky #scisky #lungsky

#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: www.bu.edu/articles/202...

"‘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!

At the CReM, we will always #standupforscience

We #StandUpForScience

The Annual MTS meeting will take place on April 10th 2025 and features BU Pulmonary presentations, from Drs. DJ Wallman, Jonathan Chang, Liz Klings, Darrell Kotton, and Burton Shen. See below for the agenda and registration details. We hope to see you there!

Last week, we celebrated yet another successful thesis defense! Congrats to Dr. Liz Flores, our BSL4 expert!

We are so excited to share our recent work, which develops a novel, simple, and tractable model of allergic airways neutrophilic disease in mice. A 🧵 (1/n) www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Dr. @anukulshenoy.bsky.social, former trainee at the Pulmonary Center and current faculty member at UM, and Dr. JosephMizgerd have published a paper highlighting novel mechanisms underpinning neutrophilic allergic airways disease, relevant to difficult forms of treatment-resistant asthma.

The Pulmonary Center is proud to join The Winter Walk to raise awareness and funds to end homelessness in Greater Boston, recognizing that housing instability significantly impacts respiratory health. Together, we walk toward a healthier, more equitable future for all.

Check out this new publication that came out this weekend! "Common Variable Immunodeficiency Clinical Manifestations Are Shaped by Presence and Type of Heterozygous NFKB1 Variants" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#IndianaJones had the crystal skull, Rising Star Dr. @hadi-nia.bsky.social has the much better crystal ribcage to study infection and immune training in the lungs #cmbe2025

A huge welcome to our newest recruit! The @MichaelHerriges Lab is launching @CReM_Boston, and we can’t wait to see all the #lungregeneration discoveries that will follow. Congratulations!! #helpisontheway! @CReM_Boston @BUPulmonary

✨🎉 Happy New Year, Terriers! 🎉✨ Here’s to a year filled with new opportunities, big wins, and unforgettable moments. 🐾❤️ Let’s make 2025 th#TerrierTownet in #TerrierTown.

New year, new lab! I’m excited to announce the opening of the Herriges lab at the Center for Regenerative Medicine of Boston University and @bupulmonary.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone at BU and in the wider pulmonary research community that has supported me throughout my career.

We ❤️ this spotlight made by BU Engineering on Pulmonary Center faculty @hadi-nia.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJFC...

Talk about making a pulmonologist feel welcome at #ASH2024! 🫁❤️🩸 “Lungs❤️RBCs” “PulmHemeDreamTram” Omg @pedshemedoc.bsky.social and @shematologist.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

A few weeks ago, clinical instructor DJ Wallman, MD, was featured as an early career highlight by @atscommunity.bsky.social RSF assembly. More here: www.thoracic.org/members/asse...

Check out this publication which features the Center's @drgjmurphy.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really enjoyed my visit to the Cedars Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute and time with my host Barry Stripp. #itsthecells!

So proud - @kottond.bsky.social talking about his awesome #stemcell work at MGH pulmonary grand rounds 🔥 🧠

The latest from our Lab and Finn Hawkins Lab, just posted @biorxiv: Targeted pre-conditioning and cell transplantation in the murine lower respiratory tract www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our latest work @ATSBlueEditor. Airway Disease Modeling with Gene-edited Human Basal Cell Transplantation: www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/... .

Congratulations to postdoc Sarah Walachowski and PhD Student Lucien Garo, co-lead authors at BU Pulmonary Center in the Bosmann Lab, on their recently published publication on complement and hookworm infections in the lungs www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Welcome to the BU Pulmonary Center, where excellence meets compassion! 🫁🩺 As part of Boston University, we're on a mission to enhance Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care health through groundbreaking research and patient-centered care.