Dr. Terrence Furey, Associate Professor of Genetics, was one of the awardees of the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) Pilot Projects Program.
His project, 鈥淕enomic Influences on Ozone Response in Mice鈥�, submitted for the 2018-2019 CEHS Standard Pilot Projects Program, was approved for funding on April 1, 2018.
His research for this pilot award explores the association of聽exposure to ambient ozone (O3) with changes in innate immune function in the airways, leading to heightened susceptibility to viral and bacterial infections. This is mediated in part by the effect of O3聽on key host defense functions of alveolar macrophages (AMs). However, the extent to which variation in genes important to AM function underlies O3聽response is largely unexplored.
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