David Perlman, M.D., Lillehei Heart Institute at the University of Minnesota

Dept. of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care
Instructor
Grant Revision Award
"Identifying Molecular Targets for Anti-Fibrotic Therapy"
Mentor: Peter Bitterman, M.D.

Dr. Perlman received his B.A. in biology from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1989. After college he worked as a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Radovan Zak at the University of Chicago, working mainly on projects relating to recovery from injury of skeletal and cardiac muscle. He subsequently returned to Minnesota to attend medical school and received his M.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1996. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center, he entered the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship program at the U of M. After the first year of clinical training, Dr. Perlman joined Dr. Peter Bitterman¿s lab. Dr. Perlman is now a junior faculty member in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University and he continues to work in Dr. Bitterman¿s lab. His current research centers mainly on the translational control of apoptosis and how it applies to the clinical problem of pulmonary fibrosis. The main goal of his project is the identification of molecules critical to the pathobiology of pulmonary fibrosis that may be amenable to therapeutic intervention.

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