Advancing Research 2024-2025

Highlighting our impact in lung disease research, including in-depth looks at our Awards & Grants recipients, Airways Clinical Research Centers Network projects and inspirational patient stories.

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American Lung Association Research Institute: Addressing Modern-Day Lung Health Issues

Today, our bold and wide-ranging research programs tackle the most important lung health issues through the search for treatments and cures for many diseases.

Study Finds that Metformin May Improve Lung Cancer Outcomes

Joseph Barbi, PhD, of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, recently achieved well-deserved publicity in Cancer Therapy Advisor and Pulmonary Advisor. The articles summarize his study funded in part by the Lung Association, called “Obesity-Specific Improvement of Lung Cancer Outcomes and Immunotherapy Efficacy with Metformin,” as published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. It found that metformin, a medication that helps control sugar levels, may improve lung cancer-specific clinical outcomes in obese and overweight lung cancer patients, as well as boost immunotherapy effectiveness. Dr. Barbi is a past recipient of the Lung Association’s Lung Cancer Discovery Award and has served as a scientific peer reviewer.

Learn more about our current class of researchers by visiting: Lung.org/Research-Team

Inflammatory Signaling: The Search for Pulmonary Fibrosis Clues

Tatsuya Tsukui, PhD, at the University of California, San Francisco, received Lung Association’s Hastings Innovation Award for Interstitial Lung Disease as a result of his inventive research project, “Determining Role of Inflammatory Signals on Fibroblasts in Pulmonary Fibrosis.” According to Dr. Dr. Tsukui, “This could be life-changing for people with the disease, helping them to breathe well once again.”

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