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Biomarkers, Immune Monitoring and Drug Discovery

Biomarkers, Immune Monitoring and Drug Discovery


          Clinical Investigator Collaborative
                  Principal Investigators Paul O'Byrne & Gail Gauvreau, McMaster University; Louis-Philippe Boulet, Université Laval; Don Cockcroft,                       University of Saskatchewan; Mark Fitzgerald, University of British Columbia; and Irvin Mayers, University of Alberta 

Biomarkers: Intracellular Cytokine Production
           Principal Investigator Bruce Mazer, McGill University

Development of an adaptive immune phenotyping platform for identification of biomarkers correlating with the development of allergic disease and clinical efficacy following therapeutic intervention  
        Principal Investigator Mark Larché, McMaster University

Ontogeny and genetic polymorphisms of the innate immune system intersecting in atopy
        Principal Investigators Tobias Kollmann, University of British Columbia,
        and Stuart Turvey, University of British Columbia

Hemopoietic stem cells as biomarkers of atopy, airways inflammation, and sources of 'epigenetic' memory  (formerly Progenitors in atopy development)
        Principal Investigator Judah Denburg, McMaster University

Non-invasive diagnostics: Metabolics for the various phenotypes of asthma (formerly Diagnosing the various phenotypes of asthma: The use of urine NMR)
        Principal Investigator Darryl Adamko, University of Alberta

Regulation of lung mucosal immune responses by heterologous exposure to multiple infectious and allergic agents 
        Principal Investigator Manel Jordana, McMaster University

Environmental impact on the epithelial immune barrier in asthma
        Principal Investigator Tony Bai, University of British Columbia

Role of mast cells and eosinophils in allergic inflammation and fibrosis of the lung
        Principal Investigator Kelly McNagny, University of British Columbia

Study of the pathogenesis and reversibility of airway damage and repair during chronic mucosal immune responses to environmental allergies
        Principal Investigator Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Université de Montréal