Researcher

Surya Bhatt

Profile

Surya Bhatt is a pulmonologist and clinical researcher at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who has made important contributions to the understanding and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases. His research spans epidemiology, genetics, and clinical trials in COPD, with particular focus on the heterogeneity of COPD as a syndrome, the role of computed tomography-based phenotyping to stratify COPD patients, and the genetic basis of airflow obstruction. Bhatt has contributed to the COPDGene study, one of the largest and most comprehensive COPD cohort studies, which has used genetic data and lung CT imaging to identify distinct COPD subtypes and their differential progression and treatment responses. His work has implications for precision medicine approaches to COPD, where matching patients to the right therapy based on molecular and imaging endotype rather than spirometry alone could dramatically improve outcomes. Pharmaceutical companies developing next-generation COPD therapies—including anti-inflammatory biologics and disease-modifying agents—use the phenotyping and biomarker frameworks from research like Bhatt's to design smarter trials and enrich for responsive patients.

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