{"id":5070,"date":"2022-09-26T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:09:28","slug":"a-multimodal-ipsc-platform-for-cystic-fibrosis-drug-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/2022\/09\/26\/a-multimodal-ipsc-platform-for-cystic-fibrosis-drug-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Multimodal iPSC Platform for Cystic Fibrosis Drug Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3781\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2022\/08\/Finn-and-Berical-e1661802278688-636x479.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"211\" class=\"wp-image-3781\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Andrew Berical MD, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep &amp; Critical Carde Medicine. Right: Finn Hawkins MD, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep &amp; Critical Care Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2022, the major challenge in cystic fibrosis is developing treatments for individuals who do not respond to highly effective modulator therapy. These individuals have mutations that lead to no residual CFTR protein. In vitro models have a proven track record in developing effective treatments for CF patients however access to cells from these high priority individuals is extremely limited.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3772\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2022\/08\/Hawkins-Spotlight-8.29.2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"290\" class=\"wp-image-3772 size-full\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure: iPSC-derived airway epithelium from a CF patient. Green labels multiciliated cells (tubulin) and red labels a secretory cells (MUC5AC).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this manuscript, we describe using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to generate airway epithelium and measure CFTR function and response to drug combinations. We anticipate that this platform will facilitate research efforts to restore CFTR function in individuals with rare CFTR mutations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-31854-8.epdf?sharing_token=dMpjjRHT19GOJSstzfjuadRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PepPLW4Wgfzx9Qk9Sfz3QvQ7CG_vctW11YLTUlJntresPjQ2NOEUjAtZ20AZT61p_bav0F6ZkF5YX-yCO7nLV5c012EdlpkGhIanx5g8pQMy2JTfIHm3PEYcgcLbqpPQM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Link to the Complete Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, the major challenge in cystic fibrosis is developing treatments for individuals who do not respond to highly effective modulator therapy. These individuals have mutations that lead to no residual CFTR protein. In vitro models have a proven track record in developing effective treatments for CF patients however access to cells from these high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16527,"featured_media":5073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6012],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}