The Harvard Lung Conference (HLC) is sponsored three times a year and hosted by one of the following participating institutions.
The next HLC is scheduled for:
Monday, December 7, 2009
12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
hosted by: Channing Laboratory, BWH
Participating Institutions
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The Brigham and Women's Hospital Respiratory Disorders Research Center uniquely combines basic science and
clinical and genetic elements to develop innovative treatment leading to dramatic changes in length and quality-of-life for patients with respiratory diseases, including asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary vascular disease, acute lung injury and lung cancer. Distinct areas of respiratory disease research at Brigham and Women's Hospital include: Basic and clinical research in emphysema, asthma, lung transplantation, acute lung injury, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and pulmonary fibrosis. Our division is committed to the training of future generation of pulmonary clinicians, educators and researchers.
Channing Laboratory
The Respiratory Research Program a the Channing Laboratory is a 25 investigator, 110 person research group
examining the environmental and genetic risk factors for the development of asthma and COPD.
Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy
The mission of the Inflammation and Allergic Disease Research Section at the Division of Rheumatology,
Immunology and Allergy at the Brigham and Women's Hospital is to understand the basic mechanisms, mediators,
and receptors responsible for the inflammatory response, and development and maintenance of allergic
inflammation.
Newborn Medicine
The Newborn Medicine Program at Harvard focuses on basic and translational studies in developmental newborn
biology. In the field of lung biology, studies are aimed at understanding mechanisms of injury and repair in the developing lung and deciphering the molecular and cellular basis of normal lung vascular development and
disease.
Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center
The BIDMC Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine conducts innovative basic science and
clinical research. These internationally recognized investigators supervise a variety of research programs
including active research in the areas of the physiology and neurobiology of sleep, physiology and response of the body to the stress of hypoxia (low oxygen levels in the blood), and lung immune cell biology and function in healthy and disease. Researchers in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine are involved in the supervision and teaching of doctoral and postdoctoral research fellows, residents and medical students.
Massachusetts General Hospital
The major focus of basic research in the Pulmonary Critical Care Unit are the mechanisms of lung injury and
repair, pulmonary vascular disease, and regulation of airway inflammation. It is anticipated that these research pursuits will provide a better understanding of tissue damage and remodeling that occur in a variety of lung diseases including asthma, the acute respiratory distress syndrome, and pulmonary hypertension.
Harvard School of Public Health
The Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health serves as the primary focus for environmental
health-related research and training activities in the Harvard School of Public Health, in the Harvard Longwood
Medical Area, and more broadly as an integrating umbrella for environmental health research in the Boston health sciences research community.
Children’s Hospital Boston
The major focus of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine research is in both basic science as well as translational
research, with particular strengths in CF, asthma and lung transplantation. The division also is committed to the training of pediatric pulmonary fellows in lung research, patient care and education.
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