Darrell Nelson Kotton, MD

Professor, Medicine

Darrell Kotton
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Biography

Darrell N. Kotton, MD is the founding director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine of Boston University and Boston Medical Center. He is a physician-scientist with attending physician duties in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Boston Medical Center and is the David C. Seldin Professor in the department of medicine and in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedesian School of Medicine. Dr. Kotton is an Allen Distinguished Investigator, a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. He is also an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigators and the Association of American Physicians. He leads a basic research laboratory, funded continuously by the NIH since 2004, focused on lung regeneration and stem cell biology, and he serves on the NIH’s National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s Board of External Experts. He is the recipient of the American Thoracic Society’s “Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishments” (2018), the AAMC inaugural national “Research Resources Sharing Award” (2017), the Alpha-1 Foundation’s “Researcher of the Year” (2013) and “Shillelagh” (2010) Awards, Boston University’s Graduate Medical Sciences Educator of the Year Award (2018), and the Robert Dawes Evans Senior Research Mentor Award from Boston University.

Expertise: Stem Cell Biology; iPS cells; Reprogramming; Gene Therapy; Lung Developmental Biology.

Other Positions

  • Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University
  • Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Investigator, Framingham Heart Study
  • Member, Pulmonary Center, Boston University
  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University
  • Member, Genome Science Institute, Boston University
  • Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students), Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

Websites

Education

  • Washington University School of Medicine, MD
  • University of Pennsylvania, BA

Publications

  • Published on 9/26/2023

    Yampolskaya M, Herriges MJ, Ikonomou L, Kotton DN, Mehta P. scTOP: physics-inspired order parameters for cellular identification and visualization. Development. 2023 Sep 26. PMID: 37756586.

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  • Published on 9/20/2023

    Werder RB, Berthiaume KA, Merritt C, Gallagher M, Villacorta-Martin C, Wang F, Bawa P, Malik V, Lyons SM, Basil MC, Morrisey EE, Kotton DN, Zhou X, Cho MH, Wilson AA. The COPD GWAS gene ADGRG6 instructs function and injury response in human iPSC-derived type II alveolar epithelial cells. Am J Hum Genet. 2023 Oct 05; 110(10):1735-1749. PMID: 37734371.

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  • Published on 8/24/2023

    Ma L, Thapa BR, Le Suer JA, Tilston-Lünel A, Herriges MJ, Berical A, Beermann ML, Wang F, Bawa PS, Kohn A, Ysasi AB, Kiyokawa H, Matte TM, Randell SH, Varelas X, Hawkins FJ, Kotton DN. Airway stem cell reconstitution by the transplantation of primary or pluripotent stem cell-derived basal cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2023 Sep 07; 30(9):1199-1216.e7. PMID: 37625411.

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  • Published on 8/24/2023

    Herriges MJ, Yampolskaya M, Thapa BR, Lindstrom-Vautrin J, Wang F, Huang J, Na CL, Ma L, Montminy MM, Bawa P, Villacorta-Martin C, Mehta P, Kotton DN. Durable alveolar engraftment of PSC-derived lung epithelial cells into immunocompetent mice. Cell Stem Cell. 2023 Sep 07; 30(9):1217-1234.e7. PMID: 37625412.

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  • Published on 7/25/2023

    Hoffman ET, Uriarte JJ, Uhl FE, Eckstrom K, Tanneberger AE, Becker C, Moulin C, Asarian L, Ikonomou L, Kotton DN, Weiss DJ. Human alveolar hydrogels promote morphological and transcriptional differentiation in iPSC-derived alveolar type 2 epithelial cells. Sci Rep. 2023 Jul 25; 13(1):12057. PMID: 37491483.

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  • Published on 6/13/2023

    Alber AB, Marquez HA, Ma L, Kwong G, Thapa BR, Villacorta-Martin C, Lindstrom-Vautrin J, Bawa P, Wang F, Luo Y, Ikonomou L, Shi W, Kotton DN. Directed differentiation of mouse pluripotent stem cells into functional lung-specific mesenchyme. Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 13; 14(1):3488. PMID: 37311756.

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  • Published on 5/1/2023

    Wang R, Simone-Roach C, Lindstrom-Vautrin J, Wang F, Rollins S, Bawa PS, Lu J, Tang Y, Beermann ML, Schlaeger T, Mahoney J, Rowe SM, Hawkins FJ, Kotton DN. De Novo Generation of Pulmonary Ionocytes from Normal and Cystic Fibrosis Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 May 01; 207(9):1249-1253. PMID: 36857488.

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  • Published on 4/15/2023

    Pradhan A, Che L, Ustiyan V, Reza AA, Pek NM, Zhang Y, Alber AB, Kalin TR, Wambach JA, Gu M, Kotton DN, Siefert ME, Ziady AG, Kalin TV, Kalinichenko VV. Novel FOXF1-Stabilizing Compound TanFe Stimulates Lung Angiogenesis in Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Apr 15; 207(8):1042-1054. PMID: 36480964.

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  • Published on 2/1/2023

    Kee J, Thudium S, Renner DM, Glastad K, Palozola K, Zhang Z, Li Y, Lan Y, Cesare J, Poleshko A, Kiseleva AA, Truitt R, Cardenas-Diaz FL, Zhang X, Xie X, Kotton DN, Alysandratos KD, Epstein JA, Shi PY, Yang W, Morrisey E, Garcia BA, Berger SL, Weiss SR, Korb E. Author Correction: SARS-CoV-2 disrupts host epigenetic regulation via histone mimicry. Nature. 2023 Feb; 614(7949):E44. PMID: 36747034.

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  • Published on 1/25/2023

    Yampolskaya M, Herriges M, Ikonomou L, Kotton D, Mehta P. scTOP: physics-inspired order parameters for cellular identification and visualization. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 25. PMID: 36747864.

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