Jennifer Sucre, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She graduated from Harvard Medical School, trained in pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, and completed fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UCLA. Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2016, she has established a research program focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of lung development and lung disease across the lifespan with a particular focus on bronchopulmonary dysplasia, the leading complication in survivors of preterm birth, and is the founding director of the Biodevelopmental Origins of Lung Disease (BOLD) Center, which serves as magnet and hub for bringing together an interdisciplinary team to tackle the most pressing questions in developmental biology, with an emphasis on scientific communication and mentoring. Her clinical experience treating premature infants provides a unique perspective for studying lung development, and she has cultivated new ex vivo, in vitro, and in vivo models of lung injury. Sucre has combined these models with single-cell biology and spatial transcriptomics to gain paradigm-shifting insights into cellular specialization and dynamics in the developing lung, elucidated age-regulated host susceptibility factors to SARS-CoV-2 infection, discovered new signaling pathways that organize lung regeneration, and defined previously unrecognized cell types in chronic respiratory diseases.