Next‐generation preclinical models of lung development, physiology and disease

Abstract The incidence of respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary cancer is growing significantly around the world, making pulmonary disease one of the leading causes of mortality. However, the development of effective therapeutics for pulmonary diseases has been hindered by the lack of human‐mimetic physiological models that reliably emulate patient responses. Recent advances in technology and cell …