Finn Hawkins, MBBCh
Associate Professor, Medicine
Biography
Dr. Hawkins is a Principal Investigator (P.I.) in the Center for Regenerative Medicine and The Pulmonary Center. His research focus is studying human lung development and disease using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Dr. Hawkins is currently using iPSC technology to study airway biology with a focus on Cystic Fibrosis.
Other Positions
- Member, Pulmonary Center, Boston University
- Member, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University
- Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students), Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences
Websites
Education
- National University of Ireland, MBBCh
Publications
- Published on 2/25/2025
Berical AC, Kiyokawa H, Beermann ML, Wallman D, Cherfane G, Dunphy V, Pan J, Tilston-Lunel A, Varelas X, Horani A, Brody SL, Kotton DN, Hawkins FJ. Reply to Huang et al.: Sowing Tailored Seeds: Gene-edited Basal Cells for Precision Regulation of Airway Phenotypes. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Feb 25. PMID: 39999444.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/29/2025
Brody SL, Pan J, Huang T, Xu J, Xu H, Koenitizer JR, Brennan SK, Nanjundappa R, Saba TG, Rumman N, Berical A, Hawkins FJ, Wang X, Zhang R, Mahjoub MR, Horani A, Dutcher SK. Undocking of an extensive ciliary network induces proteostasis and cell fate switching resulting in severe primary ciliary dyskinesia. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Jan 29; 17(783):eadp5173. PMID: 39879322.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/13/2024
Kohn A, Herriges MJ, Basak P, Ma L, Thapa BR, Kotton DN, Hawkins FJ. Targeted pre-conditioning and cell transplantation in the murine lower respiratory tract. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 13. PMID: 39605510.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/8/2024
Berical AC, Kiyokawa H, Beermann ML, Wallman D, Cherfane G, Dunphy V, Pan J, Tilston-Lunel A, Varelas X, Horani A, Brody SL, Kotton DN, Hawkins FJ. Airway Disease Modeling with Gene-edited Human Basal Cell Transplantation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Nov 08; 211(1):131-4. PMID: 39514838.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/5/2024
Ma L, Thapa BR, Le Suer JA, Tilston-Lünel A, Herriges MJ, Wang F, Bawa PS, Varelas X, Hawkins FJ, Kotton DN. Life-long functional regeneration of in vivo airway epithelium by the engraftment of airway basal stem cells. Nat Protoc. 2025 Mar; 20(3):810-842. PMID: 39501108.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/23/2024
Koenitzer JR, Gupta DK, Twan WK, Xu H, Hadas N, Hawkins FJ, Beermann ML, Penny GM, Wamsley NT, Berical A, Major MB, Dutcher SK, Brody SL, Horani A. Transcriptional analysis of primary ciliary dyskinesia airway cells reveals a dedicated cilia glutathione pathway. JCI Insight. 2024 Jul 23; 9(17). PMID: 39042459.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/21/2024
Brody SL, Pan J, Huang T, Xu J, Xu H, Koenitizer J, Brennan SK, Nanjundappa R, Saba TG, Berical A, Hawkins FJ, Wang X, Zhang R, Mahjoub MR, Horani A, Dutcher SK. Loss of an extensive ciliary connectome induces proteostasis and cell fate switching in a severe motile ciliopathy. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 21. PMID: 38562900.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/14/2024
Dagher R, Moldobaeva A, Gubbins E, Clark S, Madel Alfajaro M, Wilen CB, Hawkins F, Qu X, Chien Chiang C, Li Y, Clarke L, Ikeda Y, Brown C, Kolbeck R, Ma Q, Rojas M, Koff JL, Ghaedi M. Human iPSC-Based Model of COPD to Investigate Disease Mechanisms, Predict SARS-COV-2 Outcome, and Test Preventive Immunotherapy. Stem Cells. 2024 Mar 14; 42(3):230-250. PMID: 38183264.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2024
Shankar DA, Hawkins F, Alysandratos KD, Wilson KC, Walkey AJ, Bosch NA, Law AC. Uptake of Antifibrotics for Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 2016-2022. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 Jan; 21(1):170-173. PMID: 37879035.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/27/2023
Lee RE, Mascenik TM, Major SC, Galiger JR, Bulik-Sullivan E, Siesser PF, Lewis CA, Bear JE, Le Suer JA, Hawkins FJ, Pickles RJ, Randell SH. Viral airway injury promotes cell engraftment in an in vitro model of cystic fibrosis cell therapy. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2024 Mar 01; 326(3):L226-L238. PMID: 38150545.
Read at: PubMed
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