My laboratory aims to improve our understanding of the development of asthma and develop better ways to vaccinate individuals, especially children, without the need for needles. Both these interests have the potential to improve health of children through better treatments for asthma that is a very common disease in children, or better ways to vaccinate children against serious respiratory infections. To answer these questions we have projects that focus on basic studies in the laboratory and projects that analyze data from patients with asthma.