VU LSC PhD student contributed to the discovery of a new lung cell type
The team of researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research reported the discovery of a new airway cell type online in Nature on August 1. Rapolas Žilionis, PhD student at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) is the co-first author of the paper "A single-cell atlas of the airway epithelium reveals the CFTR-rich pulmonary ionocyte".