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.

Michael J. Welsh, MD honored with prestigious Lasker Award for fundamental cystic fibrosis discoveries that helped create life-saving therapies

Michael Welsh, MD, University of Iowa professor of internal medicine, has received the 2025 Canada Gairdner International Award for his research on cystic fibrosis (CF), which paved the way to new therapies that have transformed the health and life expectancy of people with CF.