Darrell Nelson Kotton MD
Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
670 Albany St
Sections
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Centers
Center for Regenerative Medicine
Pulmonary Center
Framingham Heart Study
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
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
Education
MD, Washington University School of Medicine
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Publications
Eiken MK, Childs CJ, Brastrom LK, Frum T, Plaster EM, Shachaf O, Pfeiffer S, Levine JE, Alysandratos KD, Kotton DN, Spence JR, Loebel C. Nascent matrix deposition supports alveolar organoid formation from aggregates in synthetic hydrogels. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 19. PMID: 38562781.
Published on 3/15/2024Basil MC, Alysandratos KD, Kotton DN, Morrisey EE. Lung repair and regeneration: Advanced models and insights into human disease. Cell Stem Cell. 2024 Apr 04; 31(4):439-454. PMID: 38492572.
Published on 2/15/2024Montesi SB, Gomez CR, Beers M, Brown R, Chattopadhyay I, Flaherty KR, Garcia CK, Gomperts B, Hariri LP, Hogaboam CM, Jenkins RG, Kaminski N, Kim GHJ, Königshoff M, Kolb M, Kotton DN, Kropski JA, Lasky J, Magin CM, Maher TM, McCormick M, Moore BB, Nickerson-Nutter C, Oldham J, Podolanczuk AJ, Raghu G, Rosas I, Rowe SM, Schmidt WT, Schwartz D, Shore JE, Spino C, Craig JM, Martinez FJ. Pulmonary Fibrosis Stakeholder Summit: A Joint NHLBI, Three Lakes Foundation, and Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Workshop Report. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Feb 15; 209(4):362-373. PMID: 38113442.
Published on 2/7/2024Miao Y, Tan C, Pek NM, Yu Z, Iwasawa K, Kechele DO, Sundaram N, Pastrana-Gomez V, Kishimoto K, Yang MC, Jiang C, Tchieu J, Whitsett JA, McCracken KW, Rottier RJ, Kotton DN, Helmrath MA, Wells JM, Takebe T, Zorn AM, Chen YW, Guo M, Gu M. Deciphering Endothelial and Mesenchymal Organ Specification in Vascularized Lung and Intestinal Organoids. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 07. PMID: 38370768.
Published on 1/16/2024Sun YL, Hennessey EE, Heins H, Yang P, Villacorta-Martin C, Kwan J, Gopalan K, James M, Emili A, Cole FS, Wambach JA, Kotton DN. Human pluripotent stem cell modeling of alveolar type 2 cell dysfunction caused by ABCA3 mutations. J Clin Invest. 2024 Jan 16; 134(2). PMID: 38226623.
Published on 1/9/2024Hume AJ, Olejnik J, White MR, Huang J, Turcinovic J, Heiden B, Bawa PS, Williams CJ, Gorham NG, Alekseyev YO, Connor JH, Kotton DN, Mühlberger E. Heat Inactivation of Nipah Virus for Downstream Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Does Not Interfere with Sample Quality. Pathogens. 2024 Jan 09; 13(1). PMID: 38251369.
Published on 11/1/2023Yampolskaya M, Herriges MJ, Ikonomou L, Kotton DN, Mehta P. scTOP: physics-inspired order parameters for cellular identification and visualization. Development. 2023 Nov 01; 150(21). PMID: 37756586.
Published on 9/20/2023Werder 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.
Published on 8/24/2023Herriges 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.
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.
Media Mentions
Published on 10/30/2023
Stem Cells Breathe New Life into Lungs
Published on 9/8/2023
Engineered stem cells could regenerate damaged tissue in PF
Published on 8/31/2023
BU Researchers See Future Where Lung Disease Is Treatable, and Damaged Lungs Are Regenerated
Published on 6/25/2023
Green and glowing mouse lung cells made to model PF in the lab
Published on 6/14/2023
New Model of Lung Mesenchymal Cells Created
Published on 6/14/2023
iPSC-Based Model System Helps Study Lung-Specific Mesenchyme
Published on 6/13/2023
Researchers create new model of lung mesenchymal cells
Published on 2/9/2022
Ambitious Effort to Develop Lab-Grown Lungs Wins Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Funding
Published on 9/23/2021
MED’s Biology of the Lung Funded through Its 50th—Yes, 50th—Year
Published on 9/1/2021
Modeling Inaccessible Cells from Induced Stem Cells Heralds Hope for Untreatable Lung Diseases
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