My current research interests revolve around developing new therapeutics for COPD and smoking-related lung diseases bases on new findings on smoking-induced pathogenic lung processes using pre-clinical models, clinical samples, imaging, and bioinformatics. My lab also developed a significant expertise on the effects of e-cigarette use on pulmonary health, looking at ‘dual smoking’ and the impact of e-cig on lung infections. My laboratory is currently accepting graduate students and post-docs.