Spotlight on new faculty – meet Tricia LeVan, Ph.D.

picture disc.Tricia LeVan, Ph.D., assistant professor, section of pulmonary, critical care, sleep and allergy, is among the many new faculty members on the UNMC campus.

Name: Tricia LeVan, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant professor – Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy

Duties: Research and development of a state of the art High-Throughput Genotyping Facility

Specialty: Gene by environment interactions. Investigating the role of endotoxin pathway genes and their polymorphisms in respiratory diseases such as allergy, asthma, COPD and lung cancer.

Highest Degree: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

Post Doc: University of Arizona, Arizona Respiratory Center

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