Finn Hawkins MBBCh

Associate Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)

72 E. Concord Street | (617) 638-4860
finn.hawkins@bmc.org
hawk@bu.edu

Sections

Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

Centers

Center for Regenerative Medicine

Pulmonary Center

Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research

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.

Websites

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Lab

Education

MBBCh, National University of Ireland

Publications

Published on 9/25/2025

Hawkins FJ. Homing Instincts: Systemic Cell-delivery for Lung Disease. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2025 Sep 25. PMID: 40996828.

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Published on 7/31/2025

Wallman DJ, Homma ST, Finton M, Beermann M, Jacob A, Choksi SP, Pletcher SD, Xu H, Bawa PS, Reiter JF, Horani A, Brody SL, Berical A, Hawkins FJ. A stem cell-based platform for functional analysis of genetic variants in lung disease. bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 31. PMID: 40766356.

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Published on 6/20/2025

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. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2025 Jun 20. PMID: 40540686.

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Published on 3/31/2025

Ma L, Thapa BR, Le Suer JA, Tilston-Lünel A, Herriges MJ, Wang F, Bawa PS, Varelas X, Hawkins FJ, Kotton DN. Author Correction: Life-long functional regeneration of in vivo airway epithelium by the engraftment of airway basal stem cells. Nat Protoc. 2025 Mar 31. PMID: 40164751.

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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; 211(5):884. PMID: 39999444.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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