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The Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Pulmonary Center is dedicated to improving pulmonary, allergy, and critical care health. www.bumc.bu.edu/pulmonarycenter

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Darrell Kotton @kottond.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Reardon, this years Chadwick Medal awardee at the⁩ 2026 Massachusetts Thoracic Society annual meeting! Our program director at the BU/BMC Pulmonary Fellowship Training Program. Congrats, Chris!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Pulmonary Center is happy to announce Kostas Kontodimas as the winner of the 2026 Kayla Bell Pulmonary Center Citizenship Award! Read the full story here: www.bumc.bu.edu/pulmonarycen...
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2026 Kayla Bell Citizen Award Winner
Kostas Kontodimas
PhD Student
The Pulmonary Center is happy to announce Kostas Kontodimas as the winner of the 2026 Kayla Bell Pulmonary Center Citizenship Award.
The Kayla Bell Pulmonary Center Citizenship Award was established to celebrate and commemorate Kayla’s time at the Pulmonary Center, and to encourage others to follow in her footsteps. 
“He would always ask how he could help and was always willing to lend a hand.”
“Kostas exemplifies kindness, generosity, and commitment to community.”
“I consider Kostas a model of motivation, resilience, and growth for all trainees.”
 “He is eager to learn new methods, intellectually curious, and highly motivated to understand scientific processes beyond the scope of his formal responsibilities…”
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Thank you to Dr Terri Tarrant @dukemedschool.bsky.social for speaking at our annual Kayla Bell Memorial Lecture last week!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thank you to Dr Bruce Levy for speaking at our annual Gordon Snider Lecture last week!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thank you to Paul Shafer at @busph.bsky.social for coming to speak with us last week!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
✨ Pulmonary Spotlight ✨ Congratulations to Assistant Professor Anica Law for receiving her first R01 from the NIH/NHLBI! #pulmonary
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
✨ Pulmonary Spotlight ✨ Professor Yang Jin, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a new R01 from the NIH/NHLBI for her project titled, “Novel mechanistic insights of inflammation and organ injury.” Read more here: www.bumc.bu.edu/pulmonarycen... #pulmonary
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thank you to Dr Michael Longaker for coming to give our Mary Williams Lecture in Cell Biology!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Congratulations to our wonderful #Pulmonary Center members who received awards during Evans Days last week! 🎉 @bumedicine.bsky.social
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
BU Pulmonary Center’s PhD candidate, Elise Armstrong (Mizgerd lab), was recently awarded the NIH NHLBI Predoctoral F31 Award for her project titled, “Lung interstitial macrophage remodeling during and after recovery from pneumococcal respiratory injection.” Congratulations!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thank you to our Sue Kim Hanson speaker, Dr Ann Rothstein, for the wonderful presentation and engaging conversation!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Thank you to Dr Jacqueline Kimmey from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social for coming to speak for us today for our Trainee Nominated Lecture!
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Anat Kohn MD PhD @anatkmdphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Happy to be sharing our work on airway cell transportation at the 2025 GRC Lung Development, Injury, and Repair Conference! @bupulmonary.bsky.social @mjherriges.bsky.social @kottond.bsky.social @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social #pulmsky #sciencesky
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Congratulations to Jonathan Chang, who has been awarded a PFF Scholars grant from the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation!
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crem-boston.bsky.social @crem-boston.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Congrats to our own Meenakshi Lakshminarayanan for being awarded Distinguished Staff of the Month. She is incredibly important to us! www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/news-e...
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Meenakshi Lakshminarayanan, MBA, Named Distinguished Staff of the Month for July | Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
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Anat Kohn MD PhD @anatkmdphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Check out our newest paper, published online in AJRCMB! www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1... @mjherriges.bsky.social @kottond.bsky.social @bupulmonary.bsky.social @ats-rcmb.bsky.social @atsearlycareer.bsky.social @ajrcmb.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Our trainees gave some great presentations at @atscommunity.bsky.social ! #ats2025
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Just a few of the amazing presentations given and awards received by our faculty! @atscommunity.bsky.social @anicalaw.bsky.social @allanwalkey.bsky.social @katrinatraber.bsky.social #ats2025
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We had a blast at @atscommunity.bsky.social unity last week! Photos of our trainee and faculty presentations & awards to come. In the meantime, enjoy this photo of everyone enjoying themselves at our alumni reception. 🥰 #ats2025
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@anicalaw.bsky.social won the Early Career Achievement Award at the Critical Care Assembly on Monday night! @atscommunity.bsky.social Our previous faculty Allan Walkey won the Mid-Career Achievement Award as well. #ats2025
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Divya Shankar gave an amazing presentation yesterday morning! @atscommunity.bsky.social #ats2025
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RobynCohenMD @robyncohenmd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The best group of colleagues and friends. #ATS2025
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Anat Kohn MD PhD @anatkmdphd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
#ATS2025! Come learn about my work on airway epithelial cell engraftment. Poster discussion session at 215pm PDT Moscone West room 2002. @mjherriges.bsky.social @kottond.bsky.social @ats-rcmb.bsky.social #pulmsky #scisky #lungsky
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Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#ProudtoBU: Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton has been named BU’s Innovator of the Year! 🎉 The regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources. Congratulations, Darrell!
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Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year
Regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for his work in pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources
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crem-boston.bsky.social @crem-boston.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are so proud of our director, @kottond.bsky.social, for being awarded BU’s Innovator of the Year!
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crem-boston.bsky.social @crem-boston.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🎉 Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton is BU’s Innovator of the Year: www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year
Regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for his work in pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"‘You talk about chronic disease, you talk about the rural people, but then why do you cut the RURAL study?’" www.statnews.com/2025/04/25/r...
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Rural health study is told it’s losing federal funds, and other major heart studies are worried
A federal health study that was examining the high burden of chronic disease in rural areas learned its funding has been cut off.
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The 78th Massachusetts Thoracic Society annual meeting had great BUMC representation; we had a record number of fellows and trainees (approx. 30) attend. Thanks to BU associate professor and MTS President Finn Hawkins for his efforts!
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The ATS is pleased to recognize Lauren Kearney, MD, as the 2025 Ziskind Clinical Research Scholar Award winner. Dr. Kearney aims to advance early detection of lung cancer, increase access to preventive care and treatment, and reduce health disparities. Read more: www.thoracic.org/professional...
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thank you to Nadia Hansel, MD for speaking at our annual Gordon Snider Lecture last week! @nadiahanselmd.bsky.social @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social
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Darrell Kotton @kottond.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
What a fantastic Mass Thoracic Society meeting this year. Thank you to MTS President Dr. Finn Hawkins @BUPulmonary for leading an outstanding day of lung 🫁 clinical and research presentations!
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We are happy to announce Kara Vasilew as the winner of the 2025 Kayla Bell Citizenship Award! This award was established to celebrate and commemorate Kayla's time at the Pulmonary Center, and encourage others to follow in her footsteps.
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crem-boston.bsky.social @crem-boston.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congrats to our poster award winners, Kevin and Braden, for their excellent work at the BU CTSI symposium!
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crem-boston.bsky.social @crem-boston.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
At the CReM, we will always #standupforscience
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We #StandUpForScience
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The Annual MTS meeting will take place on April 10th 2025 and features BU Pulmonary presentations, from Drs. DJ Wallman, Jonathan Chang, Liz Klings, Darrell Kotton, and Burton Shen. See below for the agenda and registration details. We hope to see you there!
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crem-boston.bsky.social @crem-boston.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Last week, we celebrated yet another successful thesis defense! Congrats to Dr. Liz Flores, our BSL4 expert!
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Anukul Shenoy @anukulshenoy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We are so excited to share our recent work, which develops a novel, simple, and tractable model of allergic airways neutrophilic disease in mice. A 🧵 (1/n) www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Lung CD4+ resident memory T cells use airway secretory cells to stimulate and regulate onset of allergic airway neutrophilic disease
A barrier to understanding neutrophilic asthma and developing effective therapies is a lack of animal models. Here, Ravi et al. demonstrate that transient and recurrent inhalation exposure of sensitiz...
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Dr. @anukulshenoy.bsky.social, former trainee at the Pulmonary Center and current faculty member at UM, and Dr. JosephMizgerd have published a paper highlighting novel mechanisms underpinning neutrophilic allergic airways disease, relevant to difficult forms of treatment-resistant asthma.
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Pulmonary Center is proud to join The Winter Walk to raise awareness and funds to end homelessness in Greater Boston, recognizing that housing instability significantly impacts respiratory health. Together, we walk toward a healthier, more equitable future for all.
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Check out this new publication that came out this weekend! "Common Variable Immunodeficiency Clinical Manifestations Are Shaped by Presence and Type of Heterozygous NFKB1 Variants" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Common Variable Immunodeficiency Clinical Manifestations Are Shaped by Presence and Type of Heterozygous NFKB1 Variants
NFKB1 encodes p105, which is processed to p50 to mediate canonical nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signaling. Although NF-κB is a central driver of inflamma…
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bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#IndianaJones had the crystal skull, Rising Star Dr. @hadi-nia.bsky.social has the much better crystal ribcage to study infection and immune training in the lungs #cmbe2025
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Darrell Kotton @kottond.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A huge welcome to our newest recruit! The @MichaelHerriges Lab is launching @CReM_Boston, and we can’t wait to see all the #lungregeneration discoveries that will follow. Congratulations!! #helpisontheway! @CReM_Boston @BUPulmonary
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Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
✨🎉 Happy New Year, Terriers! 🎉✨ Here’s to a year filled with new opportunities, big wins, and unforgettable moments. 🐾❤️ Let’s make 2025 the best one yet in #TerrierTown.
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Michael Herriges @mjherriges.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New year, new lab! I’m excited to announce the opening of the Herriges lab at the Center for Regenerative Medicine of Boston University and @bupulmonary.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone at BU and in the wider pulmonary research community that has supported me throughout my career.
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We ❤️ this spotlight made by BU Engineering on Pulmonary Center faculty @hadi-nia.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJFC...
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Hadi Nia PhD, Boston University Biomedical Engineering
YouTube video by BostonUniversityBME
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RobynCohenMD @robyncohenmd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Talk about making a pulmonologist feel welcome at #ASH2024! 🫁❤️🩸 “Lungs❤️RBCs” “PulmHemeDreamTram” Omg @pedshemedoc.bsky.social and @shematologist.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A few weeks ago, clinical instructor DJ Wallman, MD, was featured as an early career highlight by @atscommunity.bsky.social RSF assembly. More here: www.thoracic.org/members/asse...
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BU Pulmonary @bupulmonary.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Check out this publication which features the Center's @drgjmurphy.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What’s the secret to living to 100? Centenarian stem cells could offer clues
A bank of cells from people more than 100 years old gives scientists a new resource for studying longevity.
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Darrell Kotton @kottond.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Really enjoyed my visit to the Cedars Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute and time with my host Barry Stripp. #itsthecells!
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