Research
Interests
Asthma
and pulmonary viral infections, cytokines, chemokines, T lymphocyte
regulation in pulmonary disease, eosinophil activation.
For
more information about Dr. Lukacs' Research Laboratory, click
here.
Brief
Biography
Dr.
Lukacs received his Masters degree in 1988 from the University of New
Hamshire and his Ph.D in Immunology/Microbiology degree from Wayne State
University in 1992. Dr. Lukacs completed Postdoctoral training in the
Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School
in the laboratory of Steven L. Kunkel, Ph.D.
Upon
completion of his Postdoctoral training he accepted a faculty position
in the Department of Pathology faculty as an Assistant Research Scientist.
In 2001, Dr. Lukacs was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
In addition to establishment of an independent research program, Dr.
Lukacs has become a key member of the Department's teaching programs
and plays a significant role in the Pathology Graduate Program.
Dr.
Lukacs’s research involves the regulation of cytokine and chemokines
during eosinophilic airway inflammation, the role of mast cells in chronic
inflammation, innate and acquired immunity in pulmonary viral infections
and the role of stem cell factor (SCF) in acute and chronic inflammation. |
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