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
Michael Peters, MD, MAS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He completed his undergraduate work at Emory University, Atlanta GA, and his medical school training at the State University of New York, at Stony Brook. He completed internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado and then his fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care UCSF where he also completed a Master’s Degree in Clinical Research. Dr. Peters is the recipient of a K23 award from the NIH NHLBI to investigate the pathobiological basis of severe asthma. His work has i) expanded understanding of type-2 high subtypes of asthma, ii) uncovered an important role of systemic IL-6 inflammation and insulin resistance as drivers of asthma severity and lung disease. Clinically, Dr. Peters is an attending physician in critical care medicine at the UCSF Medical Center, and has an outpatient practice focused on the care of patients with severe asthma.