Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine

Overview

William Oldham, MD, PhD, ATSF is Director of Research and Innovation for the Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine division at Brown University Health. His laboratory investigates how cellular metabolic reprogramming contributes to the lung diseases pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis by studying in vitro and in vivo model systems using state-of-the-art analytical techniques, including metabolomics, stable isotope tracing, extracellular flux analyses, systems biology, and network medicine. By improving understanding of cell metabolism, his lab aims to develop new therapeutic strategies for the treatment lung diseases.

Dr. Oldham received his MD and PhD in Pharmacology from Vanderbilt University where he studied the mechanisms of receptor-mediated heterotrimeric G protein activation under the mentorship of Dr. Heidi Hamm. He completed clinical training in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. As a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Joseph Loscalzo, he investigated how cell metabolism responds to redox stress.

Currently, the primary interests of his laboratory are (1) identifying the metabolic requirements for extracellular matrix synthesis in fibrotic diseases, (2) characterizing the role of metabolic reprogramming in pulmonary cell differentiation following injury, (3) understanding the role of the MYC transcription factor in sustaining hypoxic cells, and (4) developing a small molecule therapeutic for ischemia-reperfusion injury.

His work is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

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