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Kenneth R. Hallows

University of Southern CaliforniaORCID 0000-0002-2964-2440Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioengineering· 2 Developmental Biology· 2

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Approach:experimental assay· 4 Organism:mouse· 4 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 3 Organism:human· 3 Assay:CRISPR screen· 1 Assay:multiome· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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Ali Osouli· 2 shared Andrew P. McMahoniD· 2 shared Ariel C. VonkiD· 2 shared Biao HuangiD· 2 shared Brendan H. GrubbsiD· 2 shared Eun Ji ChungiD· 2 shared Isabella SuzukiiD· 2 shared Jessica Pham· 2 shared

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2020-2026 · peak 2/yr

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BioengineeringbioRxivPreprintJul 21, 2026

Combination siRNA delivery as a therapeutic strategy for ADPKD

Joshua Giblin, Isabella Suzuki, Yi Huang…·Eun Ji Chung

This study demonstrates that dual-target siRNA delivery using CD-targeting micelles reduces cyst growth in ADPKD models by silencing TMEM16A and MCP-1.

DOI 10.64898/2026.07.20.739663

mousehuman

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BioengineeringbioRxivPreprintJun 5, 2026

Collecting Duct-Targeted Lipid Nanoparticles Deliver Pkd2 mRNA to Restore Polycystin-2 and Attenuate ADPKD

Joshua Giblin, Karla Lambaren, Veronica LaMastro…·Eun Ji Chung

This study develops lipid nanoparticles targeting collecting duct cells to deliver Pkd2 mRNA, restoring polycystin-2 and reducing cysts in ADPKD models.

DOI 10.64898/2026.06.02.728835

mousemultiome

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintMay 25, 2023

Modeling kidney development, disease, and plasticity with clonal expandable nephron progenitor cells and nephron organoids

Biao Huang, Zipeng Zeng, Hui Li…·Zhongwei Li

This paper develops a synthetic niche to expand nephron progenitor cells, enabling organoid generation and CRISPR screening for kidney development and disease.

2 citations

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintApr 27, 2020

Generation of kidney ureteric bud and collecting duct organoids that recapitulate kidney branching morphogenesis

Zipeng Zeng, Biao Huang, Riana K. Parvez…·Zhongwei Li

The paper generates kidney collecting duct organoids from ureteric bud progenitors and stem cells to study development and disease of the collecting system.

3 citations

mousehuman

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