Dr. Angela Haczku is the Associate Dean for Translational Research for the School of Medicine. She is an expert in pulmonary immunology with a focus on how environmental exposures such as air pollution, cigarette smoke, and psychosocial stress affect respiratory health and disease. Haczku Lab focuses on how immune systems cooperate during the development and resolution of airway inflammation. She has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers.

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Positions at UC Davis:

• Associate Dean for Translational Research, School of Medicine
• Professor of Medicine
• Director of the Lung Biology Center,
• Fellow of the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology 
• Inducted member of the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum
• Secretary of the AAAI Mechanisms of Allergy and Immunology Interest Section
• Principal Investigator, Haczku Lab

Area of Expertise

• Allergology
• Immunology
• Respiratory pathology
• Physiology

Major Research Papers

I-SPY COVID Consortium. Clinical trial design during and beyond the pandemic: the I-SPY COVID trial. Nat Med. 2022 Jan;28(1):9-11. doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01617-x. PMID:35058620.

Georas SN, Wright RJ, Ivanova A, Israel E, LaVange LM, Akuthota P, Carr TF, Denlinger LC, Fajt ML, Kumar R, O'Neal WK, Phipatanakul W, Szefler SJ, Aronica MA, Bacharier LB, Burbank AJ, Castro M, Crotty Alexander L, Bamdad J, Cardet JC, Comhair SAA, Covar RA, DiMango EA, Erwin K, Erzurum SC, Fahy JV, Gaffin JM, Gaston B, Gerald LB, Hoffman EA, Holguin F, Jackson DJ, James J, Jarjour NN, Kenyon NJ, Khatri S, Kirwan JP, Kraft M, Krishnan JA, Liu AH, Liu MC, Marquis MA, Martinez F, Mey J, Moore WC, Moy JN, Ortega VE, Peden DB, Pennington E, Peters MC, Ross K, Sanchez M, Smith LJ, Sorkness RL, Wechsler ME, Wenzel SE, White SR, Zein J, Zeki AA, Noel P; PrecISE Study Team. The Precision Interventions for Severe and/or Exacerbation-Prone (PrecISE) Asthma Network: An overview of Network organization, procedures, and interventions. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Feb;149(2):488-516.e9. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2021.10.035. Epub 2021 Nov 29. PMID:34848210.

Hernandez P, Kim D, Haczku A. The Flying Monkeys of Ozone: Oxysterols Inactivate NLRP2 in Airway Epithelial Cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2021 Nov;65(5):461-463. doi:10.1165/rcmb.2021-0275ED. PMID:34375162.

Coil DA, Albertson T, Banerjee S, Brennan G, Campbell AJ, Cohen SH, Dandekar S, Díaz-Muñoz SL, Eisen JA, Goldstein T, Jose IR, Juarez M, Robinson BA, Rothenburg S, Sandrock C, Stoian AMM, Tompkins DG, Tremeau-Bravard A, Haczku A. SARS-CoV-2 detection and genomic sequencing from hospital surface samples collected at UC Davis. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 24;16(6):e0253578. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0253578. eCollection 2021. PMID:34166421 

Enweasor C, Flayer CH, Haczku A. Ozone-Induced Oxidative Stress, Neutrophilic Airway Inflammation, and Glucocorticoid Resistance in Asthma. Front Immunol. 2021 Feb 26;12:631092. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.631092. eCollection 2021. PMID:33717165.