$3.6M NIH Grant To UA-Led International Research Consortium Seeks Precision Medicine Solutions To Stopping Asthma In Childhood

Stefano Guerra, BIO5 member and associate professor in the UA Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, has received a $3.6 million, five-year grant to study the protein CC16, a biomarker of injury to epithelial cells that line the lungs and are believed to be a protective mediator in the airway inflammatory process.