ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
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
Kara J. Mould, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at National Jewish Health. She earned her medical and public health degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL and completed Internal Medicine residency training at Emory University. She completed her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado. It was during this time that she joined the laboratory of Dr. William Janssen and began studying lung macrophages in murine models of acute lung injury. More recently, her research has focused on identifying transcriptionally-distinct airspace macrophage subsets during health and inflammatory lung diseases. To this end, she leads a translational study leveraging an endobronchial endotoxin challenge model in healthy research subjects. She hopes these projects will advance our understanding of the normal immune response to lung inflammation and eventually lead to novel therapeutic targets for patients with inflammatory lung diseases.