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Fernando Martinez, MD

Regents' Professor
Director, Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center
Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics
Fernando Martinez, MD
(520) 626-6387
fdmartin@arizona.edu

Research Interest:

Asthma and gene-environment interactions.

Publications

Kothari, Parul H, et al. “Role of Local {CpG} {DNA} Methylation in Mediating the 17q21 Asthma Susceptibility Gasdermin {B} ({GSDMB) ORMDL} Sphingolipid Biosynthesis Regulator 3 ({ORMDL3}) Expression Quantitative Trait Locus”. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., vol. 141, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 2282–2286.e6.
Chang, Eugene H, et al. “Early Life Risk Factors for Chronic Sinusitis: A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study”. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., vol. 141, no. 4, Apr. 2018, pp. 1291–1297.e2.
Lang, Jason E, et al. “Overweight/Obesity/Status/in/Preschool/Children/Associates/With”. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., vol. 141, no. 4, Apr. 2018, pp. 1459–1467.e2.
Vasquez, Monica M, et al. “Reply to Bush: Low Lung Function in Young Adult Life Is Associated With Early Mortality”. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., vol. 197, no. 4, Feb. 2018, p. 539.
Chen, Yin, et al. “Effects of Retinoids on Augmentation of Club Cell Secretory Protein”. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., vol. 196, no. 7, Oct. 2017, pp. 928–931.
Chang, Eugene H, et al. “Association Between the {CDHR3} Rs6967330 Risk Allele and Chronic Rhinosinusitis”. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., vol. 139, no. 6, June 2017, pp. 1990–1992.e2.
Vasquez, Monica M, et al. “Low Lung Function in Young Adult Life Is Associated With Early Mortality”. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., vol. 195, no. 10, May 2017, pp. 1399–1401.
Martinez, Fernando D. “Bending the Twig Does the Tree Incline: Lung Function After Lower Respiratory Tract Illness in Infancy”. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., vol. 195, no. 2, Jan. 2017, pp. 154–155.

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Clinical Trials

Study Title (link to more info on this site) Link to Study Trial Status Principal Investigator
(ORBEX) Randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study to assess the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of Oral Bacterial Extract for the prevention of wheezing lower respiratory tract illness https://breatheeasyearly.info/?com=1 Closed Fernando Martinez, MD, Wayne J. Morgan, MD
BEAMS view Current Trial - Enrolling Paloma Beamer, PhD, Dean Billheimer, PhD, Tara F. Carr, MD, Darren A. Cusanovich, PhD, Fernando Martinez, MD, Donata Vercelli, MD
Best African American Response to Asthma Drugs (BARD) Best African American Response to Asthma Drugs (BARD) Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Best African American Response to Asthma Drugs (BARD) Best African American Response to Asthma Drugs (BARD) Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Infant Immune Study (IIS) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Marilyn Halonen, PhD, Fernando Martinez, MD, Wayne J. Morgan, MD
Pathways to Immunologically Mediated Asthma (PIMA) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Fernando Martinez, MD
Preventing Asthma in High Risk Kids (PARK) Preventing Asthma in High Risk Kids (PARK) Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Step-Up Yellow Zone Inhaled Corticosteroids to Prevent Exacerbations (STICS) Step-Up Yellow Zone Inhaled Corticosteroids to Prevent Exacerbations (STICS) Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Steroids in Eosinophil Negative Asthma (SIENA) Steroids in Eosinophil Negative Asthma (SIENA) Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Steroids in Eosinophil Negative Asthma (SIENA) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Fernando Martinez, MD
TReating Children to Prevent EXacerbations of Asthma (TREXA) TReating Children to Prevent EXacerbations of Asthma (TREXA) Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Fernando Martinez, MD, Wayne J. Morgan, MD
Tucson Children's Respiratory Study (TCRS) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Stefano Guerra, MD, PhD, MPH, Fernando Martinez, MD
Tucson Epidemiological Study of Airway Obstructive Disease (TESAOD) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Stefano Guerra, MD, PhD, MPH, Fernando Martinez, MD