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Lee Borthwick

Chief Executive Officer FibroFind

Tuesday 15th September 2026

Human Precision Cut Lung Slices as a Preclinical Platform for Development & Testing of Novel Therapeutics

11:00 am

Human precision cut lung slices retain the cellular complexity and architecture of the native tissue in culture
Established, dynamic models of mucus hypersecretion, inflammation and fibrogenesis in precision-cut lung slices
Application of PCLS for target validation and drug testing