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Research Interests
View Dr. Amali Samarasinghe’s publications on NCBI My Bibliography
Dr. Samarasinghe’s research interests include allergic asthma, altered immune responses in asthma patients during respiratory viral and bacterial infections, and developing novel therapies and clinical care practices to reduce the healthcare burden.
Her lab was the first to identify that eosinophilic asthma was host protective during the 2009 pandemic influenza virus infection and that eosinophils played a crucial role in this protection. Ongoing studies are aimed at:
- Identifying antiviral responses in allergic asthma against common respiratory viral infections
- Identifying antibacterial responses in allergic asthma against common respiratory bacterial infections that occur either independently or as opportunistic infections
- Understanding the cardio-pulmonary relationship during complex lung disease.
