MIPS Faculty

Jeffrey M. Drazen

Professor in the Department of Environmental Health
Department of Environmental Health

New England Journal of Medicine
10 Shattuck Street
Boston MA 02115
phone: 617-734-7870
fax: 617-739-9864
Email: jdrazen@nejm.org
Other Affiliations:

    Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine

Education

    M.D., 1972, Harvard Medical School

Research Interests:

    Dr. Drazen's current research is collaborating with Dr. Dan Tschumperlin on mechanical transduction in the airways.

Publications:

    Silverman ES, Baron RM, Palmer LJ, Le L, Hallock A, Subramaniam V, Riese RJ, McKenna MD, Gu X, Libermann TA, Tugores A, Haley KJ, Shore S, Drazen JM, Weiss ST. Constitutive and cytokine-induced expression of the ETS transcription factor ESE-3 in the lung. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2002;27:697-704.

    Tschumperlin DJ, Shively JD, Kikuchi T, Drazen JM. Mechanical stress triggers selective release of fibrotic mediators from bronchial epithelium. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2003;28:142-9.

    Grasemann H, van's Gravesande KS, Buscher R, Drazen JM, Ratjen F. Effects of sex and of gene variants in constitutive nitric oxide synthases on exhaled nitric oxide. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2003;167:1113-6.

    Tschumperlin DJ, Dai G, Maly IV, Kikuchi T, Laiho, LH, McVittie AK, Haley KJ, Lilly CM, So PTC, Lauffenburger DA, Kamm RD, Drazen JM. Mechanotransduction through growth-factor shedding into the extracellular space. Nature. 2004 May 6;429(6987):83-6.

    Israel E, Chinchilli VM, Ford JG, Boushey HA, Cherniack R, Craig TJ, Deykin A, Fagan JK, Fahy JV, Fish J, Kraft M, Kunselman SJ, Lazarus SC, Lemanske RF, Liggett SB, Martin RJ, Mitra N, Peters SP, Silverman E, Sorkness CA, Szefler SJ, Wechsler ME, Weiss ST, Drazen JM. Use of regularly scheduled albuterol treatment in asthma: genotype-stratified, randomised, placebo-controlled cross-over trial. Lancet 2004; 364: 1505-1512.