UCSF, Airway Clinical Research Center

The current air quality in San Francisco and the Bay area is at a very unhealthy level. People with lung-related medical conditions, such as asthma, emphysema or heart disease, older adults, and children should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion. These groups are encouraged to follow their health care provider’s guidance, and seek care in a timely manner if they have symptoms or concerns. Everyone else should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion. Please contact your health car...e provider if you experience the following symptoms: Repeated coughing Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing Wheezing Chest tightness or pain Heart palpitations Nausea or unusual fatigue Lightheadedness Other recommendations to help manage health-related symptoms due to poor air quality include staying hydrated, using eye drops and nose sprays and taking throat lozenges.

The UCSF ACRC is currently recruiting participants for 4 different COPD research studies. Please contact us at 415-476-5418 for more information.

Sheena Kerr, Ph.D. and lab manager of the Fahy Lab discusses the important role the ACRC plays in providing participant samples and how these samples are examined to better understand airway disease and how the findings can aid in the development of new treatments.

The UCSF Airway Clinical Research Center is seeking adults to participate in an asthma research study to investigate airway inflammation and airway changes that occur after exposure to allergens. Participants must be 18-50 years of age, with or without asthma. Study involves 3 visits and a medical procedure (bronchoscopy). Up to $1060.00 compensation.

The current air quality in San Francisco and the Bay area is at a very unhealthy level. People with lung-related medical conditions, such as asthma, emphysema or heart disease, older adults, and children should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion. These groups are encouraged to follow their health care provider’s guidance, and seek care in a timely manner if they have symptoms or concerns. Everyone else should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion. Please contact your health car...e provider if you experience the following symptoms: Repeated coughing Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing Wheezing Chest tightness or pain Heart palpitations Nausea or unusual fatigue Lightheadedness Other recommendations to help manage health-related symptoms due to poor air quality include staying hydrated, using eye drops and nose sprays and taking throat lozenges.

Always great to have the American Lung Association visit the #ACRC. #ucsfmedicalcenter #copd #asthma #ala

The UCSF ACRC is currently recruiting participants for 4 different COPD research studies. Please contact us at 415-476-5418 for more information.

UCSF ACRC NEWS: Dr. Prescott Woodruff, Associate Director of the UCSF Airway Clinical Research Center, talks about COPD at the Chinese Community Health Fair in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Woodruff also joins Mayor of Palo Alto, Patrick Burt, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to launch the community educational event.

The #UCSF #ACRC will be walking in support of the American Lung Associations' LUNG F@RCE WALK to raise awareness and funds to help those impacted by lung cancer and other lung diseases, including #asthma and #COPD. Funds raised will support research, advocacy, education and awareness for those impacted by lung disease. Please click the link below and consider donating to the "LUNGEVITY" team. Thank you.

Always great to have the American Lung Association visit the #ACRC. #ucsfmedicalcenter #copd #asthma #ala

Dr. Stephen Lazarus, Professor of Medicine and an Associate Director of the UCSF Airway Clinical Research Center (ACRC) talks about the research taking place at the ACRC. Help Us Fight Asthma at UCSF! Research Study at UCSF for non-smoking adults with mild to moderate Asthma. Compensation up to $1200... To participate in one of our research projects click the "sign up" button on our Facebook page. #asthma #ARCR #Airway #UCSF

Dr. Prescott Woodruff, Associate Director of the ACRC featured in the NYTimes for the SPIROMICS study.

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ACRC SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Nirav Bhakta Dr. Nirav Bhakta received his M.D. and Ph.D. in cell physiology and immunology from Stanford University. Dr. Bhakta completed an Internal Medicine residency in 2007 and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship in 2011 at UCSF. He was trained in human research in the ACRC and has been an investigator in the Airway Center for 6.5 years. His interests are in using samples of human lung tissue and blood to characterize the immune cells active in ast...hma and the resulting responses of lung cells in the airways. He is particularly interested in how these responses vary between individuals and in their potential to identify new treatment options. Dr. Bhakta has a quantitative background including a degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he applies in order to extract insights from large data sets of gene expression and protein markers on immune cells. Dr. Bhakta's work would not be possible without the generous participation of so many volunteers over the years. He wishes to express his gratitude to all past participants. Photo by: Bobby J. Goltiao Antalek

Asthma Research Studies at UCSF! Click here to see if you qualify for asthma studies at UCSF. Compensation up to $1200.

Short video summary of the SPIROMICS study.

We are very excited to have lead the research efforts of this recently published paper in the New England Journal of Medicine for the SPIROMICS research group.

ACRC SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Stephen Lazarus Dr. Stephen Lazarus is an inbred product of the University of California, having received his A.B. from Berkeley, his M.D. from Irvine, and training in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at UCSF. Drafted into military service during the Viet Nam era, he spent 2 years as Chief of Pulmonary Medicine and Co-Director of the ICU at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. before returning to UCSF for additional research t...raining in the Cardiovascular Research Institute. Since joining the faculty at UCSF in 1983, Dr. Lazarus has directed basic and clinical research on the mechanisms and treatment of asthma, COPD, and other airway diseases. He is an Attending Physician on the Pulmonary Consult Service, the Adult Pulmonary Function Laboratory, and the Chest Faculty Practice at UCSF-Moffitt-Long Hospital, and has been Director of the Chest Faculty Practice, Director of the Medical Specialty Practices, and Interim Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Currently he is Director of the Training Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Associate Director of the Adult Pulmonary Laboratory and Airway Clinical Research Center. Dr. Lazarus' research has focused on the role of inflammatory cells and mediators in regulating function of the lung and airways in obstructive lung diseases. Photo by: Bobby J. Goltiao Antalek