The Lung

Dr. Ahmed Hashash is currently Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor at Elizabeth City State University, campus of the University of North Carolina (UNC). He received his PhD from Manchester University, UK. Dr. Hashash was a fellow of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and New York University Medical School (MSSM), USA. He was Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine at School of Medicine University of California, USA. Dr Hashash was Associate Professor of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh (UK) Zhejiang Intl. campus and Texas A &M University, USA from 2017 to 2025. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed international journals, 10 books with Elsevier and Springer and over 20 book chapters, and is serving as an editorial board member of repute.

• Cutting edge Research on the lung stem cell functions1. Lung organoid-based modality of lung function, cellular processes and stem cell functions2. Pulmonary organoid culture system in pulmonary pathology and genetic screeningCutting edge Research on stem cell application in the lung diseases (from bench to bed)3. Pulmonary organoid culture as innovative test-bed for basic and translational approaches (e.g., disease modeling, drug screening, etc.)4. Contributions of lung stem cell engineering to disease-specific cell line models and new therapies of lung diseases5. Preclinical and clinical applications of innovative gene editing technologies (ZFN, TALEN and CRISPR/Cas9 systems) in respiratory diseases6. iPSCs as an inexhaustible source of disease- or patient-specific stem cell models for lung development, disease and therapy and drug development from bench to bed7. The gold standard embryonic stem cells in lung repair and diseases8. Hematopoietic stem cell roles in the treatment of respiratory diseases9. Clinical potentials of human mesenchymal stem and mesenchymal stromal cells in lung diseases10. General Discussion, Conclusion Remarks and Future Direction