A manifold of siRNAs is designed and proven to effectively downregulate NF-kB or members of NF-kB signaling pathway and subsequently reduce expression of the NF-kB-regulated genes associated with inflammatory pathways in various pulmonary settings, including sepsis-induced acute lung injury in mice models, lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury in rat models, lung cancer cells [125–128]. The gene discussed is NFKB1; the disease is injury.