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Name: Deepak Deshpande, DVM, PhD
Position:
  • Director, Preclinical Core
  • Director, Center for Translational Medicine
  • Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Position: Department of Medicine
Email: Deepak.Deshpande@jefferson.edu

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.

Profile information available where linked per the reseacher's name.

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
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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

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