“It’s a pig!” That was the birth announcement Michael Welsh, MD, emailed colleagues Feb. 27, 2008, marking the successful conclusion of a five-year mission to produce a unique animal model of cystic fibrosis (CF) and open a new chapter in CF research at the University of Iowa. Read more …
Three decades of delving into the mysteries of cystic fibrosis (CF) began with simple, fundamental curiosity. “I just wanted to understand how the airway worked,” says University of Iowa pulmonologist Michael Welsh, MD.
A few years after the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene was discovered, University of Iowa scientists were the first to report that gene therapy could partially correct the CF ion channel defect in people.
David Stoltz, MD, PhD, and colleagues study the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis, a multisystem genetic disease that begins with the dysfunction of an anion channel, called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR).
Artist Dylan Mortimer, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) as an infant, creates art that transforms the strain of the disease through glittery depictions of lungs, bronchial branches, cells, DNA, and scars.
“It’s a pig!” That was the birth announcement Michael Welsh, MD, emailed colleagues Feb. 27, 2008, marking the successful conclusion of a five-year mission to produce a unique animal model of cystic fibrosis (CF) and open a new chapter in CF research at the University of Iowa.
