The Hospital for Sick Children
Dr. Amy Wong is a Scientist in the Program of Developmental & Stem Cell Biology at the Hospital for Sick Children and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She pioneered the first method to generate mature airway epithelia from human stem cells and showed these stem cell-derived cultures can be used to study airway Cystic Fibrosis disease and test new therapies (Wong et al., Nature Biotechnology 2012; Wong et al., Nature Protocols 2015; Ngan et al., Current Protocols 2022). She is internationally recognized as a pioneer in using human stem cells to model lung development and disease. Her lab has three main research focus 1) To identify novel genetic and molecular factors regulating lung development and disease; 2) To develop predictive human CF lung disease models for precision medicine; 3) To generate improved preclinical physiologically relevant lung mimetics for disease modeling using novel bioprinting and microfluidic platforms.
RT5-PTAC/CFTR: Illuminating the Impact of CFTR in Development
Saturday, September 28, 2024
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET