Assistant Professor
University of Iowa
Dr. Pezzulo is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine in the Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine Division at the University of Iowa.
He is a member of Pappajohn Biomedical Institute and the CF and Lung Biology Research Lab where he works together with other Junior Faculty and their mentors, Drs. Joseph Zabner, Michael Welsh, Paul McCray, and David Stoltz to share and advance discoveries as a team.
Dr. Pezzulo's lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms of dysregulated epithelial responses that drive chronic lung diseases. He is currently using primary cell culture, genome editing and computational biology to study how epigenetic reprogramming of lung stem cells determines long term epithelial responses to inflammatory triggers.