Neeraj Sharma, DVM, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He studies splicing and mRNA stability to inform therapies for individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). He investigates modulator treatments for the recovery of CFTR function in both primary nasal cell and heterologous cell line models. He has developed expression minigene system to study functional effects of splicing and mRNA decay. Neeraj employs RNA-sequencing technologies to identify specific molecular branches that could be inhibited to provide therapeutic avenues to treat CF and other genetic diseases caused by nonsense mutations. He is the recipient of Vertex Research Innovation Award and Gilead Research Scholar Award. Neeraj is funded by CF Foundation grants to investigate CFTR mRNA stability.