Congratulations to our group member, Minxue Jia, for the acceptance of his first co-author paper in European Respiratory Journal. His paper is entitled “The transcriptome of CD14+CD163-HLA-DRlow monocytes predicts mortality in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”. 
In this study, Minxue analyzed scRNA-seq data from peripheral blood and found that transcriptome and proportions of CD14+CD163-HLA-DRlow monocytes are associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) severity, progression and mortality.
This work was led by Dr. Jose Herazo-Maya and his -then- postdoc (Dr. Theodoros Karampitsakos).
Paper availability: [journal web site] [medRxiv]
Congratulations Minxue!