INSPiRRE Alliance
Initiative to Nurture and Stimulate Pulmonary and Respiratory Research Excellence
Breathing or respiratory motor function is an essential life function.
Despite its importance, breathing is often taken for granted until injury, disease, or illness leads to some form of incapacitation or disability. At this point, extreme life saving measures are required.
At the University of Kentucky there is a collection of faculty across the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Health Sciences, and Arts & Sciences who studies different facets of breathing – from the neural control of breathing, lung biology, and respiratory muscle biology – in both basic science discovery and translational biomedical research.
by Dr. Philippa M. Warren
The aim of the UK INSPIRRE Alliance is to leverage the collective expertise of these different researchers and promote trans-disciplinary collaborations in order to enable novel research directions and help develop early stage faculty, both of which can lead to new grant applications, external funding, and more importantly, an impact on the clinical patient population.
If interested in joining the INSPiRRE Alliance, please reach out to: warren.alilain@uky.edu
