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1999 Will Rogers Institute Donates $50,000 for Pulmonary Research The Will Rogers Institute recently donated $50,000 to UCSF for a pulmonary research fellowship. Suil Kim, previously a clinical fellow at UCSF, has received the fellowship in the lab of Jay Nadel, UCSF professor of medicine and chief of the Pulmonary & Critical Care Division.
Nadel has discovered a major mechanism that regulates the production of mucous and secretory cells in the airways that promises to have important therapeutic implications to treat hypersecretory diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and acute asthma, which currently have no treatment. His findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March, 1999. Nadel's research has also focused on the effects of air pollutants on lung biology, and work in his laboratory has contributed to the concept of asthma as an inflammatory disease. His research group discovered the water and salt transport system in the lungs that keeps the airways lubricated, an important contribution that has led to current understanding of the disease process of cystic fibrosis. Nadel has received many honors for his work, including two honorary degrees: one in 1991 from the University of Ferrara -- one of the earliest medical universities -- at the 600th anniversary of its founding, and the other in 1996 from the University of Lund in Sweden. In 1997 Nadel received the prestigious Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal of the American Lung Association. The medal is presented annually for major scientific achievement in the prevention and treatment of lung disease. Links: UCSF Pulmonary & Critical Care Division Nadel's report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 16, 1999 Related Daybreak stories: UCSF Discovery May Suggest First Treatment for Deadly Bronchitis UCSF Researcher Wins Prestigious American Lung Association Award |
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Officials
from the Institute, a national charitable health organization dedicated
to the support of lung research, and developing new treatments and cures
for pulmonary diseases and disorders, presented the check at a September
9 ceremony.