The purpose of the Creighton University Smoking Disease Research Program is to integrate and expand lung disease research at Creighton to develop a nationally and internationally recognized lung research program. Our immediate goal is provide a platform to stimulate basic and clinical researchers at Creighton University to work more closely, to expand our community of lung disease-related basic scientists and clinicians, and to enrich the overall research environment. By integrating researchers in different areas within and outside Creighton in a cohesive research program, we expect to provide synergistic interactions and opportunities to improve research and extramural funding.
Goals
Overall programmatic objective: is to integrate and expand lung disease research at Creighton to develop a nationally and internationally recognized lung research program.
Overall scientific goal: to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying early-life environmental cigarette smoke-related lung diseases.
Immediate objective: to define the mechanisms and pathological importance of pulmonary hyper-innervation in the development of early-life ECS exposure related lung diseases.