About UsWe approach the problem of asthma from every angle possible, as such, we have pulled together a diverse group of leaders in their fields that all have the same goal in common: solving asthma.
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Center Directors
Praveen Akuthota, MD
Clinical Director Praveen Akuthota, MD is Clinical Director of the Center for Asthma Prevention and Treatment and is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Pulmonary at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He has both an active laboratory where he studies asthma and a clinical practice where he sees patients. His focus on pulmonary disease gives him the opportunity to interact with patients on a weekly basis and collect important data and samples that can be used in the lab. Praveen has received multiple honors and awards for his work in this area, and had dedicated himself to sharing what he has developed with the research community.
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Pandurangan Vijayanand, MD PhD
Scientific Director Pandurangan "Vijay" Vijayanand, M.D. Ph.D. is Scientific Director of the Center for Asthma Prevention and Treatment and is the William K. Bowes Distinguished Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. While his main focus is fundamental research within the lab, he also maintains clinical operations and sees patients regularly. Vijay has established large funded projects with the National Institutes of Health to study asthma as well as a project to map “normal” human immune cells that will ultimately help us understand epigenetic variations. He is passionate about solving asthma and bringing that solution to the public.
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Leadership Council
Atul Malhotra, MD
Atul is the Division Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine
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Sonia Jain, PhD
Sonia is a Professor in the Division of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics in the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine at UC San Diego
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Laura Crotty Alexander, MD
Laura is a Staff Physician within the VA San Diego Healthcare System, as well as an Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at UC San Diego
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Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy, MD
University of Southampton Ramesh is a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Allergy
and Deputy Director of the David Hide Asthma & Allergy Research Centre |
Genomics Director
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Grégory Seumois, PhD
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Greg is the Genomics Director of the Center for Asthma Prevention and Treatment and an Instructor at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.
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Members
Toshi Kawakami, MD, PhD
La Jolla Institute 
Bjoern Peters, PhD
La Jolla Institute |
Chris Benedict, PhD
La Jolla Institute 
Alex Sette, PhD
La Jolla Institute |
Joel Linden, PhD
La Jolla Institute 
Yun-Cai Liu, PhD
La Jolla Institute |
Mick Croft, PhD
La Jolla Institute 
Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD
La Jolla Institute |
Shane Crotty, PhD
La Jolla Institute 
Syed Hasan Arshad, MD
University of Southampton |
Project Coordinator
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Yusife Nazir
Yusife is the Project Coordinator for the Center of Asthma Prevention and Treatment. |
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Global
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Multi-Disciplinary |
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Our world is more interconnected than ever before, and so too should be our approach to solving asthma. We encourage asthma experts from all over the world to come together and leverage the resources and discoveries we have made, and at the same time, share with us those insights that might take our own work to the next level.
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It is not going to be one scientist doing experiments, or one clinician seeing patients, or one bioinformatician crunching data that solves asthma, it will be a combination of experts that all work together with that common goal. We believe that anyone with the dedication and focus for asthma can contribute to the sum of all our efforts.
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Open Data Commitment
All of the work that we do is funded by taxpayers, foundations, and private philanthropists. As such, we take great responsibility in our commitment to making all of the data we generate publicly available through our Asthma Data Portal, as well as in journal publications and giving talks around the world. We believe the open data guidelines set by the NIH are vital to the community and we strive to go above and beyond those requirements by taking it upon ourselves to actively promote the data we have generated and to provide the infrastructure to make accessing it as simple as possible for anyone that would like to use it.