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.
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Our Latest Publications:
- Nwozor, KO, Hackett, TL, Chen, Q, Yang, CX, Aguilar Lozano, SP, Zheng, X et al.. Effect of age, COPD severity and cigarette smoke exposure on bronchial epithelial barrier function. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2025; :. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00223.2024. PubMed PMID:40247649 .
- Chen, Q, Wisman, M, Nwozor, KO, Sin, DD, Joubert, P, Nickle, DC et al.. COPD susceptibility gene HHIP regulates repair genes in airway epithelial cells and repair within the epithelial-mesenchymal trophic unit. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2025; :. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00220.2024. PubMed PMID:40192657 .
