Advisory Board and Editors Respiratory Medicine
Juan L Rodriguez-Flores
I am a Computational Biologist, Assistant Professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. I use -omic data to understand the mechanisms of disease risk.
I began my career as a Biology Undergraduate at MIT, where my first research project was to invent a method for attaching DNA to glass as part of the then-unfinished Human Genome Project. After MIT, I explored career options in Medical School Sillicon Valley and NIH, eventually earning a PhD in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from UCSD. My doctoral dissertation involved characterizing the regulatory genetics of the adrenaline-synthesis gene PNMT, as well as more broadly studying the human adrenergic stress pathway. Seeking additional training in genomics and statistics, I spent a year working with Kelly Frazer at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, followed by a move to Weill Cornell Medical College in 2010. As a postdoc, I developed a set of genomic analysis skills and tools that I applied to numerous projects, both locally and with international collaborators such as the 1000 Genomes Project, Weill Cornell Medical School in Qatar, and the University of Puerto Rico. In my current appointment as Assistant Professor, I am tasked with developing biotechnology tools for precision medicine.
Bernhard Wernly
Dr Bernhard Wernly is a Physician-scientist at the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzberg, Austria. He is trained in cardiology and intensive care medicine, MD, PhD and currently doing a Master in Public Health.
Zijing Zhou
Dr. Zijing Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University.
Her primary research focus is on COPD, Asthma and allergic disorders, Lung cancer, Infectious, Rare and Idiopathic Pulmonary Diseases. She has more than 2 years basic research training in Dr Yong Zhou’s Lab (http://scholars.uab.edu/display/yzhou), Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
Dr. Zhou's research projects focus on mechanotransduction in lung fibrosis and endothelial dysfunction in COPD.
