The study led by Naftali Kaminski M.D. the Boehringer-Ingelheim Endowed Professor of Internal Medicine and chief of the Section of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and John E. In the study researchers examined differentially affected regions in the lungs obtained from individuals with IPF and found that what looks like normal lung is already undergoing changes in specific genes. As the researchers have discovered how the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progresses they will now be able to provide a method to discover new treatment targets for the disease. McDonough instructor and researcher