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Zea Borok

Expert in the respiratory system, with a focus on lung injury and repair

Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Director, Training Program in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Contact at: (323) 226-7923 or zborok@usc.edu


Expertise:

  • the respiratory system
  • pulmonary medicine
  • adult respiratory distress syndrome
  • tuberculosis and other lung diseases
  • acute lung injury
  • pulmonary fibrosis
  • cell and molecular biology of the alveolar epithelium (lining cells of air sacs in the lung)
  • stem cell biology
  • gene regulation in lung injury and repair
  • gene therapy for pulmonary edema
Additional Information:
  • Recipient, NIH MERIT award
  • Fellow: American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians
  • Member: American Federation for Medical Research, American Society for Cell Biology, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine

More:
For more information go to:

http://keck.usc.edu/en/Education/Academic_Department_and_Divisions/Department_of_Medicine/~/link.aspx?_id=69D7F4B04781487E9B705213722
http://www.keckhospitalofusc.org/uscuh/services/pulmonary-critical-care-sleep-medicine