Connecticut Children's Medical Center 1 article published in JoVE Developmental Biology Conditional Reprogramming of Pediatric Human Esophageal Epithelial Cells for Use in Tissue Engineering and Disease Investigation Todd J. Jensen1, Christopher Foster1, Wael Sayej2, Christine M. Finck3 1Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, 2 Expansion of human pediatric esophageal epithelial cells utilizing conditional reprogramming provides investigators with a patient-specific population of cells that can be utilized for engineering esophageal constructs for autologous implantation to treat defects or injury and serve as a reservoir for therapeutic screening assays.