Julie Ledford

UA SRC Project 1 and Project 2 Co-Lead

Appointments and Affiliations 

Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Co-Director, Clinical Translational Sciences Graduate Program
Associate Director of Translational Research, Asthma & Airways Disease Research Center
Associate Professor, Immunobiology
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Associate Professor, Medicine
Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences
Associate Professor, Applied Biosciences GIDP

Research Interests

Dr. Ledford's current work involves studies of pulmonary surfactant protein-A (SP-A), surfactant lipids, and club cell secretory protein (CC16) and how they participate in pulmonary diseases and immune system regulation. With a special emphasis on lung infections and asthma, her research uses a combination of animal modeling and human cells to better understand the roles of these endogenous lung proteins to overall host defense and lung homeostasis.

Degrees

  • BS, The University of Georgia, Genetics, 2000
  • PhD, The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2006