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Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Lisa Sikkema
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2
Annika Vannan
Translational Genomics Research Institute
3
Philipp Weiler
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
4
Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy
University of Illinois Chicago
5
Corinna Ernst
Luxembourg Institute of Health
6
Lincoln Biswas
Nanyang Technological University
7
Chien-Ting Wu
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
8
SJ Stock
Unknown
9
Kazushige Shiraishi
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
10
Nabora S. Reyes
Institute on Aging

Papers

1
Publication in Nature Methods (2024) [206 citations, W4399608272]
Nature Methods|2024
206 cit.
2
Publication in Eurosurveillance (2024) [135 citations, W4391258475]
Eurosurveillance|2024
135 cit.
3
Spatial transcriptomics identifies molecular niche dysregulation associated with distal lung remodeling in pulmonary fibrosis
Nature Genetics|2025
113 cit.
4
Airway epithelial cell identity and plasticity are constrained by Sox2 during lung homeostasis, tissue regeneration, and in human disease
npj Regenerative Medicine|2024
14 cit.
5
Publication in European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine (2025) [1 citation, W4407137714]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine|2025
1 cit.
6
Publication in Cureus (2024) [W4400155841]
Cureus|2024
0 cit.
7
Publication in CHEST Journal (2024) [W4402582765]
CHEST Journal|2024
0 cit.
8
Publication in CHEST Journal (2024) [W4402587022]
CHEST Journal|2024
0 cit.
9
Publication in European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine (2025) [W4406710036]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine|2025
0 cit.
10
Publication in CHEST Journal (2025) [W4416700575]
CHEST Journal|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Purushothama Rao Tata
Duke University
2
Alexander V. Misharin
Northwestern University
3
Nan Tang
Shanghai University
4
Nicholas E. Banovich
Translational Genomics Research Institute
5
Herbert B. Schiller
Helmholtz Zentrum München
6
Malte D. Luecken
Helmholtz Zentrum München
7
Benjamin Izar
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
8
Tien Peng
University of California, San Francisco
9
Matthew B. Greenblatt
Hospital for Special Surgery
10
Herbert B. Schiller
German Center for Lung Research

Papers

1
Human distal lung maps and lineage hierarchies reveal a bipotent progenitor
Nature|2022
363 cit.
2
Dissecting the treatment-naive ecosystem of human melanoma brain metastasis
Cell|2022
211 cit.
3
Sentinel <i>p16</i> <sup>INK4a+</sup> cells in the basement membrane form a reparative niche in the lung
Science|2022
181 cit.
4
Spatial transcriptomics identifies molecular niche dysregulation associated with distal lung remodeling in pulmonary fibrosis
Nature Genetics|2025
113 cit.
5
Sfrp1 inhibits lung fibroblast invasion during transition to injury-induced myofibroblasts
European Respiratory Journal|2024
101 cit.
6
The CD58-CD2 axis is co-regulated with PD-L1 via CMTM6 and shapes anti-tumor immunity
Cancer Cell|2023
94 cit.
7
Cell-type-specific and disease-associated expression quantitative trait loci in the human lung
Nature Genetics|2024
92 cit.
8
A vertebral skeletal stem cell lineage driving metastasis
Nature|2023
84 cit.
9
Dysregulated lung stroma drives emphysema exacerbation by potentiating resident lymphocytes to suppress an epithelial stem cell reservoir
Immunity|2023
82 cit.
10
Ex vivo tissue perturbations coupled to single-cell RNA-seq reveal multilineage cell circuit dynamics in human lung fibrogenesis
Science Translational Medicine|2023
79 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Jeffrey A. Whitsett
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
2
Michael J. Welsh
University of Iowa
3
Michael A. Matthay
University of California, San Francisco
4
Brigid L.M. Hogan
Duke Medical Center
5
Ronald G. Crystal
Cornell University
6
Richard C. Boucher
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7
Arturo Zychlinsky
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
8
Steven H. Abman
Children's Hospital Colorado
9
Rosemary D. Higgins
National Institutes of Health
10
Alan H. Jobe
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Papers

1
Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Kill Bacteria
Science|2004
10.1k cit.
2
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine|2001
4.8k cit.
3
The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
New England Journal of Medicine|2000
4.7k cit.
4
Novel cell death program leads to neutrophil extracellular traps
The Journal of Cell Biology|2007
3.1k cit.
5
Whole-Body Hypothermia for Neonates with Hypoxic–Ischemic Encephalopathy
New England Journal of Medicine|2005
2.8k cit.
6
Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993-2012
JAMA|2015
2.8k cit.
7
Neonatal Outcomes of Extremely Preterm Infants From the NICHD Neonatal Research Network
PEDIATRICS|2010
2.7k cit.
8
Neutrophil elastase and myeloperoxidase regulate the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps
The Journal of Cell Biology|2010
2.1k cit.
9
Type 2 alveolar cells are stem cells in adult lung
Journal of Clinical Investigation|2013
1.8k cit.
10
The acute respiratory distress syndrome
Journal of Clinical Investigation|2012
1.7k cit.

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