Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Alessandra Livraghi-Butrico is a Research Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Marsico Lung Institute. Her research focuses on respiratory diseases caused by impaired mucus clearance and the integration between this key defense mechanism with other components of the lung mucosal immune system. She graduated and obtained her PhD. from the University of Milano, Italy before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to join the former Cystic Fibrosis Research and Treatment Center, now known as Marsico Lung Institute (MLI). She co-directs the MLI Animal Models Core with Dr. Wanda O’Neal and her expertise ranges from in vivo to in vitro models.