Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Dickey is a Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he was Department Chair from 2001-2021. He has studied intracellular vesicle traffic since fellowship training 1983-1985, and for the past twenty years his principal focus has been airway mucin secretion. His laboratory uses a mouse genetic approach, knocking out or overexpressing genes in airway secretory cells to study their function, and using these genetically modified mice in models of pathologic challenge. Together, this provides fundamental insight into the mechanism of mucin secretion, how its dysregulation contributes to pathophysiology, and a framework for rational therapeutic intervention.
