Our Team

• Lung and esophageal cancer
• Benign upper gastrointestinal conditions and surgery

• Management of complex pulmonary infections (in collaboration with Infectious Diseases)
• Post-COVID (ambulatory) care

• Evidence-based strategies to improve mobility among older adults

• Immunity
• Aging
• Macrophage biology
• Pneumonia
• Vaccination

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Cardiovascular rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation and aging

Victoria assists with research and operational budgets, event planning, and administrative tasks.

• Sleep medicine

• Prevention and treatment of food allergy and anaphylaxis
• Evidence-synthesis and guideline development in allergy-immunology
• Pediatric health

Administrative Assistant:

Stacey Chapman chapms8@mcmaster.ca

Cystic Fibrosis and bronchiectasis 

Administrative Assistant:

Marilyn Swartz  swartz@hhsc.ca

• Sarcoidosis
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Bronchial thermoplasty

• In vitro and in vivo characterization of vaccine and medical aerosols from various types of drug delivery systems

Fuqin Duan is a senior lab technician and lab manager with more than 2 decades of experience in research. She is broadly skilled in a broad range of experimental skills, including cell culturing, protein analysis, animal work, RNA and DNA analysis, immunohistochemistry and FACS, amongst others. She also oversees and manages lab budgets and purchasing of lab supplies for a large group of PIs, postdocs and students.

• Respiratory epidemiology
• Understanding the environmental and social determinants of lung development and function

• Cancer surgery quality, governance, standardization and benchmarking

• Pulmonary hypertension
• Interstitial lung disease
• Sarcoidosis and acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

• Robotic thoracic surgery
• Advancements in the field of thoracic surgery

• Respiratory mucosal immunology in airway diseases
• Chronic respiratory diseases and the impact of exterior factors such as cigarette smoke and cannabis

• Severe airways disease
• Airway inflammation
• Novel mechanisms of COPD exacerbations
• Iron metabolism and chronic inflammation

• Mechanisms of airway hyperresponsiveness
• Health and research ethics

• Respiratory virus epidemiology

• Interstitial lung disease
• Mechanisms of lung injury, repair and fibrosis

• Asthma/allergy
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Scleroderma
• Graft versus host disease

• Sleep medicine

• Molecular mechanisms of chronic lung disease

• Knowledge translation in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

• Developing/validating airway biomarkers
• Mechanisms of airway inflammation, and response to biologic therapies
• Long-COVID

• Developing and applying non-invasive measurements of airway inflammation in the treatment of severe asthma and COPD

• Severe asthma
• Eosinophilic lung disease

• Mechanisms and treatment of asthma; specifically the regulation of environmental allergen-induced airway inflammation and the development of new anti-inflammatory asthma treatments

• Perioperative care
• Interventional pulmonology

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Respiratory rehabilitation

• Global health policy and its impact on pulmonary infections
• Health system funding and policy
• Tuberculosis
• Non-tuberculosis mycobacteria
• Infectious lung disease

• The effects of aging, risk factors, impact, and burden of disease at a population level with respiratory symptoms such as chronic cough

• Lung transplant
• Interstitial lung disease
• Connective tissue disease

• Molecular mechanisms that stimulate migration of progenitor cells into the lung tissue following allergen challenge

• Perioperative care
• Venous thromboembolism (VTE)
• Thoracic oncology

• Sleep medicine

• Non-invasive pulmonary (lung) imaging

• Chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant related bronchiolitis and lung disease
• Respiratory COVID sequelae

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Respiratory rehabilitation

Dr. Wang works as a liaison, researcher and project manager on collaborative research projects between the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health and the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health.

• Allergy
• Rhinitis
• Asthma
• Determinants of allergic reactivity in peanut allergy