Fernando Martinez, MD

Director, Asthma / Airway Disease Research Center
The Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Genetics - GIDP
Professor, Pediatrics
Regents Professor
Research Interests: 
Dr. Martinez is a physician-scientist who leads a group that leverages epidemiology, genetics and immunology to investigate the natural history of childhood asthma and lung diseases and the early development of the immune system as a risk factor for lung diseases.

Selected Publications

2016

Stein, M. M., C. L. Hrusch, J. Gozdz, C. Igartua, V. Pivniouk, S. E. Murray, J. G. Ledford, M. Marques Do Santos, R. L. Anderson, N. Metwali, et al., "Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children.", N Engl J Med, vol. 375, issue 5, pp. 411-421, 2016 Aug 04. PMCID: PMC5137793  PMID: 27518660
Gozdz, J., M. Holbreich, N. Metwali, P. S. Thorne, A. I. Sperling, F. D. Martinez, C. Ober, E. von Mutius, and D. Vercelli, "Amish and Hutterite Environmental Farm Products Have Opposite Effects on Experimental Models of Asthma.", Ann Am Thorac Soc, vol. 13 Suppl 1, pp. S99, 2016 Mar. PMCID: PMC5015741  PMID: 27027969