Amjad Horani

Associate Professor at Washington University. Physician and scientist, interested in PCD, cilia, lung disease, and cool science.

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I am pleased to share our latest paper now appearing in Communications Biology, describing CiliaTracks a machine learning tool-kit that we hope will provide a method to evaluate and diagnose PCD. https://t.co/GDKu6J4xUl https://t.co/bDsoZj6tKw #PCD #cilia

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I got this pin from a very dear friend of mine during the recent Global PCD conference, and it truly embodies what is needed to find a cure for rare diseases and how the basic/translational/clinical sciences in this unique area should be: One Goal, One Team, Ego set aside.

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

Amazing keynote talk by Steven Brody at the Global PCD conference discussing basic molecular mechanisms of PCD disease. #PCD, #CILIA

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

Amazing talk by Prof Heymut Omran, the inaugural Michael R Knowles lecture at the Global PCD conference, reviewing the history of gene discovery in PCD. #pcd #cilia

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

The very first GLOBAL PCD conference starts, a major milestone in PCD care. Excited to see how the meeting has evolved over the years. #pcd #cilia

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

Today I was deeply touched. Riley, chose to forgo her birthday gifts and instead ran a fundraiser to support #PCD research to help her brothers, Mavrick and Conard, and thousands more like them. I turly appreciate their generous donation to the @horaniLab for PCD research.

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I am proud of Ahmed Elgamal, a clinical postdoc in our lab for receiving the American Thoracic Society Abstract Scholarship Award, sponsored by the PCD Foundation. Congrats Ahmed ❤️

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

Join us tomorrow at session: A9 PRIMARY CILIARY DYSKINESIA IN A GENOMIC THERAPEUTIC ERA, #ATS2026 Orlando to discuss the greatest and latest in Primary ciliary dyskinesia updates.

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

Hard at work deciphering cilia! I am really proud of Nicholas Hadas for being accepted to the PhD program in Bioinformatics at the Francis Crick Institute in the UK.

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

This is a quick read summarizing what many of us have been seeing the past several years..

China turns the tables in biotech | Science https://t.co/YpZGUbAf7C

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

Merry Christmas to all my colleagues. I am thrilled to spend the holiday with a very very dear friend of mine, Dr Kareem Azab, from UT Southwestern. Drinking coffee as only a scientists might understand 😊

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I gave talks at 4 meetings the past 2 months. However, I am particularly excited to be invited by my former Chief, Tom Ferkol, to present at U of North Carolina. Together with my research mentor, now collaborator, Steven Brody, he is a main reason I work in cilia and PCD.

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I am excited to share our latest preprint describing a comparative transciptomic analysis between primary ciliary dyskinesia and cystic fibrosis. The more we understand the pathways driving disease the better equipped we are to find a cure.

https://t.co/LG0SJ96td0

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I am excited to share our preprint of CiliaTrack, a novel machine learning approach to PCD diagnosis. Proud of Nicolas Hadas, a talented PhD candidate in my lab, for developing the code and his amazing work on this project.
https://t.co/fCwO6xcUcs

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I would like to share a Guideline-in-Focus episode that summarizes the recently published ERS/ATS PCD diagnosis guidelines. These guidelines are an important step in standardizing our approach to #PCD diagnosis across the world.

https://t.co/bxuQZHOFlf

[BEAT-PCD (ERS CRC) @beatpcd]

The ERS/ATS guidelines for the diagnosis of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia are available online https://t.co/mwkAnW1gBC
The panel gives strong recommendation for use of HSVM, IF, and nNO as adjunct tests to TEM and/or genetics for PCD diagnosis

[BEAT-PCD (ERS CRC) @beatpcd]

Equally great presentation by @horaniLab at #ERSCongress highlighting the unified ERS/ATS PCD diagnostic guidelines

[BEAT-PCD (ERS CRC) @beatpcd]

The European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society guidelines for the diagnosis of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia are now available online https://t.co/mwkAnW1gBC

[Amjad Horani @horaniLab]

I am excited to share the new European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society guidelines for the diagnosis of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia https://t.co/YPgqtBUXbr

[BEAT-PCD (ERS CRC) @beatpcd]

New ATS/ERS guidelines available very soon! If you missed today’s presentation, do not miss the guidelines session at the # ERSCongress on Monday (9:30am - room 7A).