Claire Collins
George Mason University
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Claire hails from Figsboro, a rural town in southwestern Virginia, and currently resides in Fairfax with her husband. In her free time, she enjoys working at an OB-GYN office as a medical assistant. Currently Claire works at the Inova Faifax Advanced Lung Disease Clinic as a research project associate. Claire is also applying to medical school where upon graduating she hopes to return to a small town to practice and expand access to clinical research to smaller, more isolated communities, fusing her passions of patient care and clinical research.
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Claire was working on a bioinformatic analysis a large gene list from IPF derived fibroblasts. Her interest was to find surface markers that are unique to specific phenotypes of fibroblasts that are present in the IPF lung. Her goal was to identify one or more proteins which will allow researchers to isolate or target the drivers of pathogenesis in the fibrotic lung. Claire was also a mentor to Durwood Moore, a current member of the lab. Claire trained Durwood on his microscopy techniques and her mentorship is one of the key reasons Durwood came back to work in the Grant lab through the OSCAR program. -
Posters
Moore D, Collins C,Grant GM. Painting the IPF Lung. Biology Research Semester Fall 2018
C Collins, M Leema, E McLaughlin, S.D. Nathan and GM Grant. Role of Thymosin beta4 in Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Virginia Academy of Science May 2012.
