More than a Disease of the Airways: Systematic Effect of Asthma

This grand round presented by Professor Nizar N. JarJour focuses on the systematic effect of asthma.

Nizar Jarjour, MD is an Adult Pulmonologist, Ovid Meyer Endowed Professor of Medicine, and the Head of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Jarjour has served as a Principal Investigator for several NIH funded collaborative grants, including the severe asthma research program (SARP) and the precision therapies in severe and exacerbation prone asthma (PrecISE). Most recently, Dr. Jarjour has conducted research studies on the systemic effects of asthma. In 2023, Drs. Jarjour and Melissa Rosenkranz received an RO1 as Co-PIs to study the effects of airway inflammation in asthma on the risk for dementia. Last September, he chaired the International Collaborative Asthma Network (ICAN) meeting in Milan and started a 6-month sabbatical in the UK to explore opportunities for US-UK collaboration on asthma research studies. The first half of his sabbatical was spent at University of Southampton, and he came to Imperial College in late November for the second half of his sabbatical, working closely with Drs. Fan Chung, Salman Siddiqui and Ian Adcock.