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To find out more about the people behind the paper, we caught up with first author @KevinEmmerich3 and corresponding author Jeff Mumm @HopkinsMedicine: https://t.co/pUulrW7bv5

COPA syndrome is a rare dominant autoimmune disorder caused by mutations to the coatomer associated protein subunit alpha (copa) gene

One of the more routine projects the Boehm lab does is create new hiPSC lines from patents we see in the clinic, like this newly published line to study COPA syndrome

@nih_nhlbi Currently i am focused on CADASIL, a rare heterogenous disease caused by NOTCH3 mutations. For more info on this disease check out @cureCADASIL

Our lab has unprecedented clinical access to rare disease patients through @nih_nhlbi and my role is to model diseases in vitro/vivo with hiPSCs differentiated into blood vessel organoids and other relevant vasculature cells

My new position after completing my thesis with Dr. Jeff Mumm is a scientist at the NIH/NHLBI studying rare vascular diseases under Dr. Manfred Boehm

This work was inspired by seminal projects in the retinal regeneration field by @SethBlackshaw, @ThanhHoang_, @Levi_J_Todd and many others

Thrilled to share my major thesis project in Dr. Jeff Mumm's lab is available studying the context-specificity of regeneration of distinct cell types in the zebrafish retina https://t.co/QpEP66C8Dg