Who we are :
The Experimental Pulmonology and Inflammation Research (EXPIRE) group is a scientific research group housed in the Medical Biology and Pathology department in the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). The main research focus of the group are lung diseases: Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). Diseased and healthy lungs are studied in our laboratory at genetic, cellular, immunological, and 3D structural levels, from childhood to old age.
Our Research ->
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Our Latest Publications:
- Ly, BH, Brouwer, U, Hesse, L, Kumawat, K, van Gosliga, D, Petersen, AH et al.. Protocadherin-1 deficiency increases baseline and allergen-induced airway hyperresponsiveness in mice. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2026; :. doi: 10.1093/ajrcmb/aanag131. PubMed PMID:42412517 .
- van Breugel, M, de Jong, E, Buikema, HJ, Petoukhov, I, Nawijn, MC, Burgess, JK et al.. A deep learning framework for histopathological analysis of pixel-level extracellular matrix variation in standard H&E-stained images. Sci Rep. 2026; :. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-56138-9. PubMed PMID:42331910 .
