Andrew Berical MD
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 358-2800aberical@bu.edu

Sections
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Centers
Center for Regenerative Medicine
Pulmonary Center
Education
Medicine, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
Medical Science, MA, Boston University School of Medicine
Chemistry, BA, Bowdoin College
Publications
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.
Published on 1/29/2025Brody 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.
Published on 11/8/2024Berical 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.
Published on 7/23/2024Koenitzer 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.
Published on 3/21/2024Brody 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.
Published on 8/24/2023Ma 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.
Published on 7/29/2022Berical A, Lee RE, Lu J, Beermann ML, Le Suer JA, Mithal A, Thomas D, Ranallo N, Peasley M, Stuffer A, Bukis K, Seymour R, Harrington J, Coote K, Valley H, Hurley K, McNally P, Mostoslavsky G, Mahoney J, Randell SH, Hawkins FJ. A multimodal iPSC platform for cystic fibrosis drug testing. Nat Commun. 2022 Jul 29; 13(1):4270. PMID: 35906215.
Published on 6/14/2022Berical A, Beermann ML, Suzuki S, LeSuer J, Matte T, Davis B, Kotton D, Hawkins F. Generation of Airway Epithelial Cell Air-Liquid Interface Cultures from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. J Vis Exp. 2022 Jun 14; (184). PMID: 35781291.
Published on 9/1/2021Garcia MA, Rampon GL, Doros G, Jia S, Jagan N, Gillmeyer K, Berical A, Hudspeth J, Ieong M, Modzelewski KL, Schechter-Perkins EM, Ross CS, Rucci JM, Simpson S, Walkey AJ, Bosch NA. Rationale and Design of the Awake Prone Position for Early Hypoxemia in COVID-19 Study Protocol: A Clinical Trial. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021 09; 18(9):1560-1566. PMID: 33647225.
Published on 10/23/2020Hawkins FJ, Suzuki S, Beermann ML, Barillà C, Wang R, Villacorta-Martin C, Berical A, Jean JC, Le Suer J, Matte T, Simone-Roach C, Tang Y, Schlaeger TM, Crane AM, Matthias N, Huang SXL, Randell SH, Wu J, Spence JR, Carraro G, Stripp BR, Rab A, Sorsher EJ, Horani A, Brody SL, Davis BR, Kotton DN. Derivation of Airway Basal Stem Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2021 01 07; 28(1):79-95.e8. PMID: 33098807.
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