Finn Hawkins MBBCh
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 638-4860finn.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.
Education
MBBCh, National University of Ireland, 1998
Publications
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.
Published on 4/1/2023Shankar DA, Walkey AJ, Hawkins FJ, Bosch NA, Peterson D, Law AC. Hospital-level variation in practices and outcomes for patients with severe acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2023 Apr; 10(1). PMID: 37076251.
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 1/12/2022Wang R, Hume AJ, Beermann ML, Simone-Roach C, Lindstrom-Vautrin J, Le Suer J, Huang J, Olejnik J, Villacorta-Martin C, Bullitt E, Hinds A, Ghaedi M, Rollins S, Werder RB, Abo KM, Wilson AA, Mühlberger E, Kotton DN, Hawkins FJ. Human airway lineages derived from pluripotent stem cells reveal the epithelial responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2022 03 01; 322(3):L462-L478. PMID: 35020534.
Published on 1/12/2022Ng WH, Johnston EK, Tan JJ, Bliley JM, Feinberg AW, Stolz DB, Sun M, Wijesekara P, Hawkins F, Kotton DN, Ren X. Recapitulating human cardio-pulmonary co-development using simultaneous multilineage differentiation of pluripotent stem cells. Elife. 2022 01 12; 11. PMID: 35018887.
Published on 7/20/2021Suzuki S, Hawkins FJ, Barillà C, Beermann ML, Kotton DN, Davis BR. Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into functional airway basal stem cells. STAR Protoc. 2021 Sep 17; 2(3):100683. PMID: 34355203.
Published on 6/29/2021Smyth R, Sloan JM, Burks E, Hawkins F. Primary pulmonary marginal zone lymphoma: an unusual cause of pulmonary infiltrates. Respirol Case Rep. 2021 Aug; 9(8):e00806. PMID: 34221408.
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.
Published on 9/18/2020Huang J, Hume AJ, Abo KM, Werder RB, Villacorta-Martin C, Alysandratos KD, Beermann ML, Simone-Roach C, Lindstrom-Vautrin J, Olejnik J, Suder EL, Bullitt E, Hinds A, Sharma A, Bosmann M, Wang R, Hawkins F, Burks EJ, Saeed M, Wilson AA, Mühlberger E, Kotton DN. SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Lung Alveolar Type 2 Cells Elicits a Rapid Epithelial-Intrinsic Inflammatory Response. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 12 03; 27(6):962-973.e7. PMID: 32979316.
Media Mentions
Published on 10/27/2020
Human Airway Basal Stem Cells Created from Patients’ Cells
Published on 10/26/2020
Patient-specific airway stem cells developed to model lung diseases
Published on 9/8/2020
What Sets Off Deadly Levels of Lung Inflammation in Some COVID-19 Patients?
Published on 7/2/2019
Chasing a Cure for Lung Disease With Stem Cells: A Conversation With Finn Hawkins
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