Our Team

Our outstanding team of academic investigators provides oversight of the design, execution, and interpretation of a wide range of experiments that describe the therapeutic safety and efficacy of your drug or approach.

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Deepak Deshpande, PhD
Director, Preclinical Core
Director, Center for Transitional Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Tung Chan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

  • Asthma
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Smoking/Emphysema
  • Lung Fibrosis

Deepak Deshpande, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Asthma
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Smoking/Emphysema
  • Lung Fibrosis
  • Acute Lung Injury (ALI)/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
  • Alcoholic Fatty Lung

Boopathi Ettickan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

  • Asthma

Raymond B. Penn, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Robley Dunglison Professor of Pulmonary Research

  • Asthma
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Smoking/Emphysema
  • Lung Fibrosis
  • Acute Lung Injury (ALI)/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
  • Alcoholic Fatty Lung

Tonio Pera, PhD
Instructor of Medicine

  • Asthma
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Smoking/Emphysema
  • Lung Fibrosis

Ross Summer, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Asthma
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Smoking/Emphysema
  • Lung Fibrosis
  • Acute Lung Injury (ALI)/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
  • Alcoholic Fatty Lung

Ross Summer, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

  • LPS Model of Sepsis
  • Cecal Ligation & Puncture

Bin Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

  • Osteoporosis
  • Arthritis

Armen, Roger PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jefferson College of Pharmacy