Q&A with Michael Welsh, MD, Welsh, who received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award and a Canada Gairdner International Award in 2025. He reflects on the advances in cystic fibrosis treatment instigated by work in his lab. The 1974 Carver College of Medicine graduate and longtime UI professor of internal medicine was quick to credit his Iowa upbringing, the people who challenged him, the patients who trusted him, and the Iowans who have supported research.