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The Asthma Research Center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in conjunction with Harvard Medical School and the Partners Asthma Center is dedicated to conducting research that advances the treatment and understanding of asthma.

Our research investigations in asthma are varied. Our goals at the Asthma Research Center include determining how to best use currently available drugs, examining the potential effectiveness of new drugs and therapies, and trying to increase the understanding of the mechanisms of asthma in the hope of developing new therapies.

The Asthma Research Center is also a participant in Asthmanet, as well as the Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN) which is a ten-center nationwide network sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The ACRN is dedicated to conducting well-designed clinical trials for rapid evaluation of new and existing therapeutic approaches for asthma. The Asthma Research Center runs multiple studies. These research studies vary in duration and compensation is up to $1,180 for your time and effort.

Call us at 617-732-8201 or 1-888-99 ASTHMA or click the link below to get more information or to see if
you qualify.

more information on becoming a participant

Elliot Israel, M.D.
Director
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School And Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Elliot Israel graduated from John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Israel serves as the Director of Clinical
Research in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Israel is supported by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in the investigation of numerous studies dealing with Asthma. In 2006, Boston Magazine named him one of
Boston’s best pulmonary doctors. He is a Principal Investigator of the NIH Asthma Clinical Research Network and is a Principal Investigator on the NIH Severe Asthma Research Program. He has completed over 50 studies on asthma.

Michael Wechsler, M.D., MMSc.
Elliot Israel Associate Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School And Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Michael Wechsler obtained his MD from McGill University School of Medicine in 1993, and a Masters of Medical Science from Harvard Medical School in 2002. Dr. Wechsler is an associate physician in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as the Associate Director of the Asthma Research Center. Dr. Wechsler has been involved with numerous research projects focused on both asthma and Churg Strauss Syndrome, and is a member of the Steering Committee at the NIH’s Asthma Clinical Research Network.

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