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Graduate student pursues potential therapy for deadly lung disease
June 29, 2026
ROANOKE, Virginia, June 29 -- The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech posted the following news:

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Graduate student pursues potential therapy for deadly lung disease

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With no cure in sight, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis kills roughly 22,600 Americans each year. Virginia Tech doctoral student Diruba Yeasmen is working to halt the deadly lung disease.

A student in the Translational Biology, Medicine, and Healt . . .

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