In April 2024, Emma Stapleton Thornell, PhD, research assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, held what would become known as the first meeting of the Biomedical Sustainability Initiative for the pulmonary research labs in the Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building (PBDB). Their initial focus? How to reduce the carbon footprint produced by their […]
Emma Stapleton, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, earned a one-year, $15,000 Environmental Health Sciences Research Center (EHSRC) Career Development Award (CDA). Contingent on her progress in Elucidating the role of IL-18 in airway epithelial response to inhaled antigens, the funding will be extended to a second […]