{"id":5111,"date":"2024-10-02T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T16:49:04","slug":"dj-wallman-given-ignition-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/2024\/10\/02\/dj-wallman-given-ignition-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. DJ Wallman Granted Ignition Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5112\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2024\/10\/DJW-Head-shot-2024-1-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"DJ Wallman\" class=\"wp-image-5112 size-medium\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2024\/10\/DJW-Head-shot-2024-1-477x636.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2024\/10\/DJW-Head-shot-2024-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2024\/10\/DJW-Head-shot-2024-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2024\/10\/DJW-Head-shot-2024-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2024\/10\/DJW-Head-shot-2024-1-500x667.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/files\/2024\/10\/DJW-Head-shot-2024-1-1000x1334.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>DJ Wallman, MD, Clinical Instructor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are pleased to share that Dr. DJ Wallman was granted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/funding-grants\/finding-funding\/internal-funding-opportunities\/ignition\/\">Ignition Award<\/a>, provided by BU Technology Development to better support upcoming science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Personalized, precision gene editing therapy has the potential to revolutionize medicine and therapeutic development relies on access to disease models for pre-clinical studies. Limited access to an adequate number of human, patient-specific cells is holding back the development of curative strategies for tens of thousands of patients in the U.S with primary ciliary dyskinesia. In Dr. Wallman&#8217;s project, called CilioMAP, they generate human airway stem cells (&#8220;iPSC-derived Basal Cells&#8221;) \u00a0engineered to contain any genetic variant that is then used to model any monogenic ciliopathy in both <em>in vitro<\/em>\u00a0and <em>in vivo<\/em>\u00a0culture systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/ignition-awards-bring-bu-science-and-tech-to-market\/\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to share that Dr. DJ Wallman was granted an Ignition Award, provided by BU Technology Development to better support upcoming science and technology. Personalized, precision gene editing therapy has the potential to revolutionize medicine and therapeutic development relies on access to disease models for pre-clinical studies. Limited access to an adequate number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22552,"featured_media":5112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4141,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}