Meet Our Members

Leadership

  • Jason Scott Debley, MD, MPH

    Jason Scott Debley, MD, MPH

    Director, Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics

    Dr. Jason Debley’s research has spanned clinical, epidemiologic, basic and mechanistic patient-oriented translational asthma research. His work over the past two decades has concentrated on investigation of the role of the airway epithelium in asthma pathobiology, with focus areas including study of innate immune responses of airway epithelial cells to respiratory viruses and aberrant epithelial regulation of airway remodeling responses. He built a translational research program wherein primary bronchial epithelial cells are obtained from asthmatic and healthy children undergoing elective surgical procedures at Seattle Children’s Hospital. This infrastructure is a unique resource in the U.S., providing a steady source of primary bronchial airway epithelial cells from carefully characterized children with and without asthma that are used to conduct mechanistic research.

  • Gail H Deutsch, MD

    Gail H Deutsch, MD

    Medical Director, Department of Laboratories; Associate Director, Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics

    Gail Deutsch, MD, associate director of the Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics, is a pediatric pathologist in the Division of Laboratories at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She received her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Pittsburgh and fellowship in pediatric pathology at Women & Infants Hospital and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her clinical expertise is in pediatric, developmental and pulmonary pathology, with a specific interest in diffuse lung disease. She has been active in the Children’s Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease Research Network (chILDRN) since its inception in 2004 and onboarded Seattle Children’s Hospital as an enrollment site for the chILD National Registry.

CRBT Researcher Meetings

All CRBT researchers are invited to attend quarterly meetings to provide their feedback on scientific strategic planning. For more information regarding CRBT governance and CRBT researcher meetings, please send us an email.

Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics

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Physical Address

1916 Boren Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101

Mailing Address

M/S BOR-6
PO Box 5371
Seattle, WA 98145-5005