Research
Dr. Abbasi’s research centers on the immunological mechanisms by which exercise improves chronic lung disease such as COPD, Asthma, and long COVID.
Biography
Dr. Asghar Abbasi is an Investigator at the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He received a PhD in Exercise Immunology and completed postdoctoral trainings in Neuroimmunology (The Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at University Hospital Tübingen, Germany), Neurobiology of Aging (MIND institute at UC Irvine), and Respiratory Medicine and Physiology (The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center).