MPH’s Hartert to lead Project 1 Team to study RSV’s role in asthma formation
Investigators in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine recently received a $4.5 million Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Center (AADCRC) grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The award will be used for research at Vanderbilt and Emory University to investigate how respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is involved in the initiation of asthma. Vanderbilt was one of only six centers nationally to be recognized by the NIAID. Tina Hartert, M.D., Lulu H. Owens Professor of Medicine, is the leader of Project 1 and will examine the effect of early life RSV infection on the development of asthma later in childhood.