Zea Borok

Expert in the respiratory system, with a focus on lung injury and repair
  • Professor of Medicine, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine
  • Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  • Director, Hastings Center for Pulmonary Research
Office: (323) 409-7184

Expertise

  • the respiratory system
  • lung disease
  • adult respiratory distress syndrome
  • acute lung injury
  • pulmonary fibrosis
  • cell and molecular biology of the alveolar epithelium (lining cells of air sacs in the lung)
  • lung stem cell biology
  • gene regulation in lung injury, repair and regeneration

Additional Information

  • Recipient, NIH MERIT award
  • Recipient, NIH 35 Award
  • Fellow: American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians
  • Elected to American Association of Physicians
  • Member: American Federation for Medical Research, American Society for Cell Biology, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine