The Microbiome in Respiratory Disease: Principles, Tools and Applications

Dr. Huang is Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. She has directed numerous respiratory microbiome investigations of asthma and COPD, including NIH multi-center studies. Her research laboratory utilizes interdisciplinary approaches to understand how the compositional structure and functions of airway and gut microbiota affect airway disease phenotype. Dr. Huang has served on numerous panels and committees regarding microbiome science and respiratory disease, including for the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Dr. Garantziotis is Staff Clinician, Principal Investigator and Medical Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. His research focuses on gene-environment interactions in the pathogenesis of lung disease. He is leading a number of studies on the role of the microbiome in lung injury and is the Chairperson of the working group "Microbiome in Lung Disease" of the American Thoracic Society, Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation Assembly.