Dr. Cosgrove is Associate Professor, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado-Denver and Assistant Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program and principal or co-investigator in the clinical and research programs within the program. He joined the ILD Program at National Jewish Health in 2002, after completing his Pulmonary and Critical Fellowship at the University of Colorado-Denver. Dr. Cosgrove is on the Editorial Board of CHEST and serves as a reviewer for the American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology, the European Respiratory Journal and Arthritis and Rheumatism.
Dr. Cosgrove's research is focused on the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the lung's response to injury and programmed cell death. In particular, he is interested in wound repair within the lung and its relationship to the development of fibrosis. Dr. Cosgrove was awarded the prestigious Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research in 2002. Dr. Cosgrove is has recently been awarded an NIH Epigenetics Roadmap Program grant to investigate the role of epigenetics in the development of asthma in collaboration Drs. David Schwartz and Ivana Yang at National Jewish Health.
