David’s research group at Harvard University studies the design and performance of novel nano-structured medical aerosols for the treatment of human diseases and particularly infectious diseases. Current work in his laboratory includes the investigation of fluid mechanical properties of the lung lining fluid that permit control of expired bioaerosol and mitigation of the spread of inhaled infectious disease, development of novel antibiotic therapies for tuberculosis and a new delivery platform for needleless childhood vaccines. His research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The international not-for-profit Medicine in Need, or MEND, based in Cambridge, Paris, and Pretoria, manages research collaborations between David’s lab at Harvard University and other laboratories in the US, Europe and Africa, and translates this research to clinical practice in the developing world. Other companies created through David’s research include Advanced Inhalation Research, or AIR, and Pulmatrix.

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