Dr. Motz is a junior faculty member in the department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery and is working to establish himself as a successful clinician scientist. He has successful received career development funding (K23) through the NIDCD to investigate pathologic signaling pathways in macrophages associated with pathologic wound healing and subsequent fibrosis in the larynx and trachea. His research is complimentary to the work being done in TTEC. Cumulatively, Dr. Motz’s research is geared at identifying and targeting novel signaling pathways that drive airway fibrosis with the end goal of engineering a drug eluting biomaterial that can be used treat chronic wounds in the larynx trachea. This focus aligns well with the cross-cutting themes of Precision Medicine and Disease Modeling.
