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Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are lung diseases that cause extensive illness and death. Both diseases involve infiltration of damaging inflammatory cells. We found that sugar molecules (glycans) on lung tissues engage sugar binding proteins (siglecs) on inflammatory cells, signaling them to stop and limiting tissue damage. The goal of the Lung Inflammatory Disease Program of Excellence in Glycosciences (LID-PEG) is to develop new ways to treat asthma and COPD based on siglec-glycan binding

The LID-PEG consists of four highly-integrated projects at three leading biomedical research institutions, and is supported by carbohydrate chemistry and animal disease model cores. In addition, the LID-PEG trains young investigators to be future leaders in biomedical glycosciences.

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