Asthma model was a group effort

To the Editor:

Your article on asthma [Mapping the Landscape of Asthma, Winter 1999] explained very nicely the ever-increasing problem this disease represents in the United States and worldwide, as well as the efforts at Yale to address this pressing problem. I wish, however, to point out that the inducible transgenic mouse that was described, in which genes can be turned on and off at will, was not prepared solely in my laboratory. It was a collaborative effort of a number of laboratories including that of Prabir Ray, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine.

Jack A. Elias, M.D.
Professor of medicine
Chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine