Our lab is open to graduate students, postdocs and clinical fellows with an interest in the study of pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular failure, and sex biases in cardiopulmonary diseases. Our lab is also open to collaborators with an interest in these areas.
Please contact us if you are interested.
The Lahm laboratory is studying mechanisms of how sex hormones such as 17β-estradiol affect lung and RV endothelial cell homeostasis as well as cardiomyocyte function during PH and RV failure development. A specific focus is on deciphering how estrogen receptor alpha promotes resilience to maladaptive RV remodeling by regulating angiogenesis, contractile signaling and inflammatory processes.
Other areas of interest in the Lahm lab include studies of hypoxia-induced lung vascular and RV remodeling in the perinatal period and throughout the lifespan, neurohormonal signaling in the RV, exercise effects on RV function, and novel PH phenotypes in the veteran population. The Lahm lab recently expanded its studies of sexually dimorphic lung diseases to study androgen signaling in asthma and to identify mechanisms of how androgens modulate airway epithelial cell function.
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Tim Lahm, MD, ATSF
Personnel
Tim Lahm, MD
Principal Investigator
Rafael Fais, PhD (Opens in a new window)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Simon Bousseau, PhD (Opens in a new window)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Karina Mora Massad, MD
Medical Fellow
Tsering Palmo, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jiajun Li, MS (Opens in a new window)
Graduate Student
Vijaya Karoor, PhD
Assistant Professor
Avram Walts, MS
Senior Professional Research Assistant
Laboratory Manager
