inner cities appear to be at greater risk with a higher frequency of asthma, and disease that is more severe, and greater morbidity and mortality. “However, in the inner-city–particularly for African American and Puerto Rican children–the asthma epidemic continues. Busse, who co-edited the book Allergy: Principles and Practice and Asthma and Rhinitis. “If you look at the epidemiology of asthma, the increases seen in the 1980s and 1990s have generally plateaued across the world,” says Dr. Busse, who won an ATS Award for Scientific Accomplishment in 2005, has received continuous funding for his asthma research through the National Institutes of Health, and he’s currently principal investigator of the NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Inner City Asthma Consortium, which focuses on immune-based therapy for asthma in inner-city children. Busse’s career and philanthropy will be recognized during the Sixth Annual ATS Foundation Research Program Benefit as the ATS 2014 Breathing for Life Award recipient.ĭr. In May, during the ATS 2014 International Conference in San Diego, Dr. Busse has contributed heavily to the ATS Foundation Research Program. To make sure that more generations of young investigators receive the support they need to make a similar impact, Dr. Since then, he’s become a noted expert in the field and has gained recognition for his breakthrough research in eosinophilic inflammation and rhinovirus-induced asthma with more than 400 papers to his credit. Busse’s relationship with the ATS began in 1976 when it awarded him a two-year research grant to help kick start his asthma laboratory at UW-Madison. “One’s first love becomes pretty important in one’s life,” says the professor in the division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. William Busse, MD, can’t help but wax poetic when reflecting on his membership in the American Thoracic Society.
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