John Engelhardt

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Dr. John Engelhardt is the director at the University of Iowa Center for Gene Therapy of Cystic Fibrosis, as well as the head of the department of anatomy and cell biology. [1] He is known as the creator of the first cloned ferret, and for his work in finding a cure for cystic fibrosis. [2]

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Education

Engelhardt got his undergraduate degree in biochemistry at Iowa State University in 1985. He then went on to get his doctorate in human genetics from Johns Hopkins University in 1990. [3]

Research

Engelhardt is most widely known for his creation of new animal models for the study of cystic fibrosis. In the 1990s he developed the human tracheal xenograft models that allowed study of humanized airways on denuded rat tracheal scaffolds. However, he soon found that there were major limitation of mouse models to study CF. He later found that the ferret represents a much better model for lung disease, and in 2006 his laboratory became the first in the world to clone ferrets. [4]

Engelhardt's research has been geared towards finding gene therapies for cystic fibrosis. Specifically, he focuses on: [5]

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References

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  2. Li, Z.; Sun, X.; Chen, J.; Liu, X.; Wisely, S. M.; Zhou, Q.; Renard, J. P.; Leno, G. H.; Engelhardt, J. F. (2006). "Cloned Ferrets Produced by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer". Developmental Biology. 293 (2). PMC US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health: 439–448. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.02.016. PMC   1892907 . PMID   16584722.
  3. "John F. Engelhardt, PhD". American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
  4. "John F. Engelhardt, PhD". Anatomy and Cell Biology. University of Iowa.
  5. "John F Engelhardt". Cystic Fibrosis and Translation Centers. Cystic Fibrosis and Translation Centers. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  6. "John F Engelhardt". Cystic Fibrosis and Translation Centers. Cystic Fibrosis and Translation Centers. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  7. "Engelhardt named 2019 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors". University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. University of Iowa. Retrieved December 5, 2019.