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Eugene R. Bleecker, MD is a Professor of Medicine, and Co-Chief of the Division of Genetics, Genomics, and Precision Medicine, University of Arizona. His scientific interests and expertise are in translational approaches in asthma and COPD, including defining disease heterogeneity and biomarker endotypes, genetics of disease susceptibility and severity, and pharmacogenetics of responsiveness to therapy. He has led studies utilizing unbiased cluster approaches to define asthma phenotypic heterogeneity and severity as well as investigated the relationship between airway cellular inflammation and severity in asthma and COPD. He has had an active role in designing and performing clinical trials that provide an evidence basis for therapeutic interventions in asthma and COPD as well as a new systems pharmacogenomics project. He has published over 450 manuscripts, 120 book chapters, editorials and reviews, as well as over 700 scientific abstracts.