Cardoso Lab
Location and Contact Information
Principal Investigator
Research in the Cardoso Lab focuses on the regulation of lung development, regeneration-repair, and the role of developmental signaling in lung diseases. Ongoing studies aim to elucidate the origin of the tissue-specific stem cells of the lung and their transition to differentiate into specific lung epithelial cell types. We investigate the mechanisms that control the organization and behavior of the airway stem cell compartment and how failure of these mechanisms leads to aberrant differentiation programs in pulmonary diseases. Our studies on lung development focus on the regulation of cell plasticity during organogenesis and the establishment of new technologies to investigate and model diseases of prematurity in human neonates. In addition, we are using cutting-edge cellular, single-cell transcriptomics and computational approaches to study SARS-COVID-2-host interactions and identify druggable targets in the human lung.
Active Projects
- Ontogeny and regulation of the airway stem cell pool in the lung
- Developmental signaling in lung formation and diseases
- Understanding formation and diversification of multiciliated cells
- Postnatal consequences of prenatal disruption of developmental signaling