The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#375 - 🟠 CHNC 2025 KEYNOTE - Can we make baby lungs more resilient?
20 minutes Posted Nov 12, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
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Send us a text This keynote episode features Dr. Jennifer Sucre (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), whose research bridges bedside observation and molecular biology to uncover why some preterm infants develop severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) while others recover. Through innovative live imaging of lung development and mouse and human tissue models, her lab discovered that capillary “guidance” signals—semaphorins—are crucial for lung repair and resilience. Loss of these pathways mar...