Deepak Kumar Bhalla

Dr. Deepak Bhalla earned degrees in Biology and Cell Biology from Punjab University and a PhD in Cell Biology from Howard University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. He was a well-respected colleague and educator.  His research in the area of pulmonary toxicology opened up new ideas in the role of air pollutants in impairing the tight junctions between cells that provide the barrier protecting the lung from fluid infiltration. He was Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Medicine at UC Irvine from 1986-1995. He left UC Irvine to join the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Wayne State University in Ohio as Professor in 1995 and was appointed Dean of the College in 2016. Deepak Bhalla died at the age of 71 on March 16, 2018 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Michael Kleinman, Adjunct Professor
Community & Environmental Medicine, UC Irvine

Ulrike Luderer, Professor
Medicine, UC Irvine