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Tags: biomedical research, Bioresearch, 2012, Life Science Market Update., Denver, Front Line event, CO, Colorado, National Jewish Health University, NJH
National Jewish Health in Denver is the #1 respiratory hospital in the United States and the only institution in the world dedicated exclusively to respiratory, cardiac, and immune diseases. Researchers at NJH's Center for Genes, Environment & Health (CGEH) have recently published the results of an important study that identifies a genetic variant for ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis and its cousin familial interstitial pneumonia. Both are fatal diseases involving progressive lung scarring; some 40,000 people die annually of the little-understood and untreatable conditions.
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Tags: Genomics, Colorado, Southwest Region, National Jewish Health University, NJH