Dr. Anne Marie Singh studies asthma interventions

Anne Marie Singh, MD, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the recipient of an award co-funded by Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago and the Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation. Dr. Singh hopes to find interventions to prevent asthma.

Many children wheeze at a young age, but not all children who wheeze will develop asthma. Dr. Singh works with children who are too young to have been diagnosed or who have not yet received a positive diagnosis.

For the study, she reviews the children's medical histories and takes a blood sample to find immune markers, allergic antibodies and other responses to triggers. She looks for commonalities among children who eventually develop asthma, such as similar immune responses or antibody levels.

At this point, Dr. Singh has enrolled 30 children and may have found a connection between regulatory T-cells, which control immune responses, in the development of asthma.

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