Virginia Tech: Graduate Student Pursues Potential Therapy for Deadly Lung Disease
June 30, 2026
June 30, 2026
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, June 30 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
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Graduate student pursues potential therapy for deadly lung disease
An American Heart Association fellowship recognizes Dilruba Yeasmen's research into an essential signal control that has the potential to inhibit lung scarring.
By Leigh Anne Kelley
With no cure in sight, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis kills roughly 22,600 Americans each year. Virgi . . .
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Graduate student pursues potential therapy for deadly lung disease
An American Heart Association fellowship recognizes Dilruba Yeasmen's research into an essential signal control that has the potential to inhibit lung scarring.
By Leigh Anne Kelley
With no cure in sight, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis kills roughly 22,600 Americans each year. Virgi . . .