Breathing Easier
Fall 2009
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have made recent advances in early detection, prevention, and risk reduction related to lung-damaging conditions such as cancer and pulmonary fibrosis.
The Center for Lung Science and Health
serves as the Uof M’s interdisciplinary home for lung research, education, and public outreach. One facet of the center’s mission is to promote and enhance research education and training opportunities in lung science and health.
Summer 2009
- New $8.4 million grant funds study of a deadly lung disease
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University of Minnesota researchers in the Center for Lung Science and Health received an $8.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of Health to study a deadly chronic lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF.
