ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2023
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Daniel Russell Calabrese, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep at the University of California, San Francisco and a Staff Physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where his medical thesis focused on comparative anatomy. He trained at the University of Washington in Internal Medicine and attended UCSF for fellowship. He completed additional clinical training in Advanced Lung Disease and Transplantation and a research fellowship with Dr. John Greenland.
As a pulmonary physician-scientist, Dr. Calabrese focuses on the mechanisms of innate immune activation and the cascade of inflammatory responses in the lung during acute and chronic injury. His lab employs animal models of lung transplantation, in vitro modeling, and human tissue samples in concert with modern immune and genomic profiling techniques with the goal to improve outcomes for patients after transplantation. His work has demonstrated important roles for Natural Killer cells in pulmonary CMV infection, antibody mediated rejection, and ischemia-reperfusion injury. He has received numerous awards and grants including a Career Development Award from the VA Office of Research and Development, the Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Joel D. Cooper Award from the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and funding from the American Society of Transplantation and the NIH.