[caption id="attachment_23034" align="alignright" width="300"] John Kim, MD, MS[/caption] John Kim, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, was awarded a five-year $3.2 million NIH grant to identify blood protein biomarkers that correlate with early stages of pulmonary fibrosis. Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic respiratory illness that can lead to respiratory failure and early death. Majority of pulmonary fibrosis clinical trials have tes...