Welcome to the Funk Lab!
The Funk Lab aims to understand how ageing and environmental stress impact epithelial barrier homeostasis and regeneration capacity, causing functional deterioration and promoting the development of chronic inflammatory diseases, particularly COPD in the lung.
Our favorite research tools are innovative 3D organoid models from primary mouse & patient-derived tissue. To reconstruct the epithelial interaction interface with the environment and the cellular microenvironment ex vivo, we are advancing our organoid models by micro-injection and as co-culture systems.
For more details, please read about our Scientific Vision and Research.
