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Overview

Harold A. Chapman is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, with a significant portion of work addressing neonatal respiratory health and interstitial lung diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine

Within this broad discipline, Chapman has contributed extensively to the following subfields:

  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology

Their research covers a series of specialized topics:

  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies
  • Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways

Chapman has published in several frequent venues with multiple contributions, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell stem cell
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • "Alveolar regeneration through a Krt8+ transitional stem cell state that persists in human lung fibrosis," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Collagen promotes anti-PD-1/PD-L1 resistance in cancer through LAIR1-dependent CD8+ T cell exhaustion," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "The Cellular and Physiological Basis for Lung Repair and Regeneration: Past, Present, and Future," 2020, published in Cell stem cell
  • "Human distal airways contain a multipotent secretory cell that can regenerate alveoli," 2022, published in Nature
  • "Distinct Airway Epithelial Stem Cells Hide among Club Cells but Mobilize to Promote Alveolar Regeneration," 2020, published in Cell stem cell

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Chapman include:

  • Jaymin J. Kathiriya
  • Claude Jourdan Le Saux
  • Paul J. Wolters
  • Alexis Brumwell
  • Don L. Gibbons

Best Publications

  • Alveolar epithelial cell mesenchymal transition develops in vivo during pulmonary fibrosis and is regulated by the extracellular matrix

    Kevin K. Kim;Matthias C. Kugler;Paul J. Wolters;Liliane Robillard

  • Pycnodysostosis, a Lysosomal Disease Caused by Cathepsin K Deficiency

    Bruce D. Gelb;Guo-Ping Shi;Harold A. Chapman;Robert J. Desnick

  • EMERGING ROLES FOR CYSTEINE PROTEASES IN HUMAN BIOLOGY

    Harold A. Chapman;Richard J. Riese;Guo-Ping Shi

  • Regulation of Integrin Function by the Urokinase Receptor

    Ying Wei;Matvey Lukashev;Daniel I. Simon;Sarah C. Bodary

  • Expression of the elastolytic cathepsins S and K in human atheroma and regulation of their production in smooth muscle cells.

    Galina K. Sukhova;Guo Ping Shi;Daniel I. Simon;Harold A. Chapman

  • Repair and regeneration of the respiratory system: complexity, plasticity, and mechanisms of lung stem cell function.

    Brigid L.M. Hogan;Christina E. Barkauskas;Harold A. Chapman;Jonathan A. Epstein

  • Identification of the urokinase receptor as an adhesion receptor for vitronectin.

    Ying Wei;D. A. Waltz;Navaneetha Rao;R. J. Drummond

  • Inducible targeting of IL-13 to the adult lung causes matrix metalloproteinase– and cathepsin-dependent emphysema

    Tao Zheng;Zhou Zhu;Zhongde Wang;Robert J. Homer;Robert J. Homer

  • The ectodomain of Toll-like receptor 9 is cleaved to generate a functional receptor

    Sarah E. Ewald;Bettina L. Lee;Laura Lau;Katherine E. Wickliffe

  • Essential Role for Cathepsin S in MHC Class II–Associated Invariant Chain Processing and Peptide Loading

    Richard J Riese;Paula R Wolf;Dieter Brömme;Lisa R Natkin

  • Plasminogen activators, integrins, and the coordinated regulation of cell adhesion and migration.

    Harold A Chapman

  • Cathepsin S Required for Normal MHC Class II Peptide Loading and Germinal Center Development

    Guo-Ping Shi;Jose A Villadangos;Glenn Dranoff;Clayton Small

  • Lineage-negative progenitors mobilize to regenerate lung epithelium after major injury

    Andrew E. Vaughan;Alexis N. Brumwell;Ying Xi;Jeffrey E. Gotts

  • Cystatin C deficiency in human atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysms.

    Guo-Ping Shi;Galina K. Sukhova;Anders Grubb;Anique Ducharme

  • TGF-β1 Signaling and Tissue Fibrosis.

    Kevin K. Kim;Dean Sheppard;Harold A. Chapman

  • A Role for Caveolin and the Urokinase Receptor in Integrin-mediated Adhesion and Signaling

    Ying Wei;Xiuwei Yang;Qiumei Liu;John A. Wilkins

  • Integrin α6β4 identifies an adult distal lung epithelial population with regenerative potential in mice

    Harold A. Chapman;Xiaopeng Li;Jonathan P. Alexander;Alexis Brumwell

  • Interferon γ induction of pulmonary emphysema in the adult murine lung

    Zhongde Wang;Tao Zheng;Zhou Zhu;Robert J. Homer

  • Genetic epidemiology of severe, early-onset chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Risk to relatives for airflow obstruction and chronic bronchitis

    Edwin K. Silverman;Harold A. Chapman;Jeffrey M. Drazen;Scott T. Weiss

  • Alveolar regeneration through a Krt8+ transitional stem cell state that persists in human lung fibrosis

    Maximilian Strunz;Lukas M. Simon;Meshal Ansari;Jaymin J. Kathiriya

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin K. Silverman
Edwin K. Silverman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University
Frank E. Speizer
Frank E. Speizer Harvard University
Paul J. Wolters
Paul J. Wolters University of California, San Francisco
Hidde L. Ploegh
Hidde L. Ploegh Boston Children's Hospital
John B. Hibbs
John B. Hibbs University of Utah
Jose A. Villadangos
Jose A. Villadangos University of Melbourne
Jeffrey M. Drazen
Jeffrey M. Drazen Harvard University
Augusto A. Litonjua
Augusto A. Litonjua University of Rochester Medical Center
Matthew Bogyo
Matthew Bogyo Stanford University

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