- Autoimmune lung and skin fibrosis
- Fibroblast-macrophage interactions
- Cadherin biology
- Use of virtual tools for patient and provider education in autoimmune diseases
- Registry of COVID 19 infections in autoimmune disease
- Allergic disease pathogenesis
- Fungi and antifungal immunity
- MicroRNA-based control of immunity
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Asthma
- Chronic sinusitis
- Fungal allergies
Grace Hsiao-Wei Lo, M.D., M.S.
- Identifying risk factors (including cardiovascular risk factors, genetic risk factors, biomechanical risk factors and exposure to physical activity) for the development and progression of osteoarthritis
- Understanding the clinical implication of findings on imaging in osteoarthritis
- Improving outcome measures in osteoarthritis, including clinical and imaging measures
- Clinical trials in osteoarthritis
- Primary Sjogren's syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosus-epidemiology and clinical trials
- Lung inflammation: understanding how let-7 microRNA orchestrates immune cell and epithelial response to lung injury
- Health Disparities and Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Rheumatic Diseases including, Gout, Osteoarthritis, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and total joint replacement
- Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of innate and allergic airway inflammation and dissecting mechanisms of associated chronic neurologic inflammation that contributes to Alzheimer's disease
- Examining how DNA damage, repair, recognition and cross-talk with immune recognition of cytosolic and nuclear DNA together modulate innate immune responses and contribute to pathways that either induce or regulate innate chronic allergic airway inflammation and chronic brain inflammation
- Determination of novel genetic causes of autoimmune and immune dysregulatory disorders
- Investigation of unique biomarkers and therapeutic targets in pediatric autoimmunity
- Advancement of the understanding of cytokine signals in health and in autoimmune disease