Cho named Inflammation Program director

Josalyn Cho, MD, assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Occupational Medicine, has been named the next director of the University of Iowa’s Inflammation Program. Cho returned to the University of Iowa, where she earned her medical degree, in 2018, after years as director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship and Vice Chair of […]

Cho focuses on keeping influenza immune response safe

Josalyn Cho, MD, assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, earned a five-year, $2.6 million R01 from the NIH to investigate an immune regulatory protein, T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3 (Tim3), and its impact on influenza infection in the lungs. “During influenza infection, the immune response must be tightly regulated to […]

Cho examines allergy and asthma link

Josalyn Cho, MD, assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, received a two-year, $275K R21 grant from the NIH for her project “Airway Dendritic Cells in the Allergic Asthma Phenotype.” Cho’s team will investigate dendritic cells in the lungs of allergic patients with and without asthma to understand how these cells contribute to […]