A Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences researcher has received a five-year, $2.1 million federal grant to improve asthma treatment. Dr. Yin Chen, an assistant investigator in the Division of Translational Biology, will use the grant money to study mucous cell development.
Chen's research focuses on the causes of excessive mucus production, a major contributing factor to airway obstruction, in chronic lung diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis.