Michael Yeager is a pulmonary vascular biologist at the University of Colorado Denver jointly appointed as an assistant professor in the departments of Pediatrics-Critical Care and Bioengineering. His training began in 1997 in the laboratory of Rubin Tuder, M.D. and under the co-mentorship of Norbert Voelkel, M.D., two pioneers in the comprehensive clinical, basic, and translational study of cardiopulmonary pathobiology.