The mission of the Temple Center for Inflammation and Lung Research (CILR) is to promote basic, pre-clinical, translational and clinical research in the field of acute and chronic inflammation. It is also our objective to train scientists interested in the study of these processes, and to broaden the awareness and understanding of inflammatory disease in the community. We are committed to the dissemination of information to help broaden the understanding of the causes of lung disease, to communicate how the development of lung disease can be reduced, and to convey how lung disease can be most appropriately treated.