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Congratulations to graduate student Albert Xu for publishing in Dev Cell!
Excess Neuropeptides Disrupt Lung Function in Infant Disease and COVID-19
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
PEDIATRICS, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Development, Disease, Stem Cells, and Neural-Immune Interactions
RESEARCH FOCUS
The Sun Lab studies fundamental mechanisms of tissue formation, maintenance, function/dysfunction, regeneration/degeneration. We employ cutting edge genome editing, single cell transcriptomic and epigenomics, and whole-tissue clearing and advanced imaging approaches to delineate the robust programs that dictate normal biology, and uncover the imperfections that initiate pathogenesis.
At the center of our investigation is the lung, an organ that is vital for survival at first breath. It is the setting for many fetal, pediatric and adult diseases that have little explanation and no cure. We use disease modeling as a starting point to make basic science discoveries in developmental biology, stem cell biology, lung-immune-neural circuit interactions.
Congratulations to graduate student Albert Xu for publishing in Dev Cell!
Excess Neuropeptides Disrupt Lung Function in Infant Disease and COVID-19
The Sun Lab published in Dev Cell
Excess neuropeptides in lung signal through endothelial cells to impair gas exchange Dev Cell. 2022.
Current openings for postdocs and graduate students. Please contact Dr. Sun at xinsun (AT) ucsd (DOT) edu