Our Mission
The mission of APEL is to be the world-leading controlled human exposure lab, leveraging interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork excellence to provide a robust mechanistic understanding of exposure-induced lung pathophysiology that informs plausible policy, preventive and therapeutic interventions and develops the next generation of research leaders.
We also operate the Occupational Lung Disease Clinic at the Centre for Lung Health at Vancouver General Hospital for patients with concerns regarding occupational or environmental exposures contributing to respiratory diseases, including asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, cancer and pleural disease.