Jose Herazo-maya MD

Dr. Herazo-Maya is an associate professor of medicine at the University of South Florida. He obtained his MD degree at the University of Cartagena School of Medicine in Colombia. In 2008, he became a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, under the mentorship of Dr. Naftali Kaminski, where he worked in the area of functional genomics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh and his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Pittsburgh and Yale.

Dr. Herazo-Maya’s research focus is the identification of molecular profiles associated with increased mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) using high-throughput “omic” technologies and precision medicine approaches. His ultimate goal is to identify new therapeutic targets for IPF that can improve patient survival. His previous research demonstrated a 52-gene signature that predicted survival in IPF and tied these gene expression changes with shifts in immune cell subpopulations. Most recently, he has developed an interest in studying microRNAs in serum as potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in IPF and their mechanistic role in disease severity and progression.