Research Pursuits
The following is a list of the research areas currently being investigated at the FIRH:
- Population studies of asthma epidemiology and causation
- Studies of asthma management utilizing biomarkers of inflammation
- Investigation of novel pharmaceutical therapies for asthma
- Investigation of novel procedural therapies for asthma and COPD
- Mechanisms of airway hyperresponsiveness and airway remodelling
- Trafficking and lung homing of bone-marrow derived hemopoietic stem cells in allergic asthma and COPD
- Immunobiology of allergic asthma
- Control of airway and vascular smooth muscle structure, function and intracellular signalling
- COPD epidemiology and treatment
- COPD and Respiratory Rehabilitation
- Pathobiology of pulmonary fibrosis
- Clinical trial center for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Functional and structural imaging of the lung
- Chronic cough
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