“My CF hope for the future is that we will identify drugs for patients with rare mutations – not leaving any patient behind.” Exciting research is progressing every day to tackle infections, GI complications, CF-related diabetes, and more for people living with cystic fibrosis – but we couldn’t have reached this point without the discovery of the CF gene in 1989. Dr. Batsheva Kerem, a professor of genetics at Hebrew University and a member of the team at Sick Kids who helped discover the gene, looks back the discovery.