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Eszter K. Vladar

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Eszter K. Vladar, PhD is an associate professor in the Departments of Medicine (Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine) and Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She received her PhD and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Before joining CU Anschutz, she was an Instructor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the ciliated cells of the respiratory epithelium, which mediate the mucociliary clearance of the airways as our first line of defense against inhaled threats. Her CF research interests are centered on mechanisms of airway epithelial remodeling and mucociliary dysfunction. Active projects investigate: 1) functional and transcriptomic airway epithelial responses to highly effective modulator therapy, 2) remodeling mechanisms due to aberrant activation of developmental signaling programs in CF airway epithelial stem cells, and 3) role of ciliated target cells in respiratory viral infections in the CF airway epithelium. The Vladar lab is funded by grants from the NIH, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the American Thoracic Society and the SPARK Program.

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