Naftali Kaminski, MD

Naftali Kaminski, MD, is the director of the Simmons Center and the Lung Translational Genomic Center. He is an associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, with secondary appointments in Human Genetics and Computational Biology. Dr. Kaminski received his medical degree from the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Hadassah Mount-Scopus University Hospital in Jerusalem, and a pulmonary fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Sheba Medical Center in Tel-Hashomer, Israel. Dr. Kaminski completed also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) in the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). During this period, Dr. Kaminski also trained in functional genomics and microarray technology at the Functional Genomics Laboratory at Roche Bioscience, Palo-Alto, Calif. Dr. Kaminski was the head of Functional Genomics at Sheba Medical Center before being recruited to the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Kaminski has a long time commitment to studying the basic molecular networks that underlie the lung phenotype in pulmonary fibrosis. He has pioneered the application of microarray technology to lung fibrosis and has applied this technology in a variety of models and disease states. Dr. Kaminski has also been actively involved in developing bioinformatic and computational approaches to data analysis and implementing “Systems Biology Approaches” in pulmonary medicine. Dr Kaminski’s research is funded by the NIH and is currently focused on identifying new markers to improve diagnosis and outcome of IPF and on developing new therapeutic targets in the disease. Dr. Kaminski has authored more than 75 papers, reviews and book chapters. Dr Kaminski is active on the American Thoracic Society and was the editor of “Gene Express”, a column on genomics at the American Thoracic Society Website as well as a member and chair of the International Program Committee of the Assembly on Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology at the American Thoracic Society. 

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