Temple Lung Center: Spring 2024

The Temple Lung Center is the nation’s first entirely multidisciplinary hub for thoracic medicine and surgery. Bringing together research and clinical faculty, collaboration among specialties reinforces Temple’s leadership in lung transplantation, thoracic surgery, acute and chronic care of pulmonary diseases, clinical and scientific research, and medical education.

Cover art depicts a landscape of honeycombed fibrous tissue replacement of healthy lung as seen in interstitial lung disease. The close-up of a small bronchus shows two normal alveoli clusters (pink) and two scarred alveolar sacs with the interstitial honeycombing appearance (blue). Also included is a visual reference to diagnosis through DNA testing of chromosome telomere length (end points of chromosomes). By Cynthia Turner