Julie Ledford, PhD

Associate Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine

Co-Director, Clinical Translational Sciences Graduate Program

Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute

Associate Professor, Asthma & Airways Disease Research Center

University of Arizona Eureka Hub Leader

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I am an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Arizona. I am also an active member of the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center and the BIO5 Institute and have faculty appointments in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in the Physiological Sciences and in the Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Training program. I serve as co-director of the Lung Research Focus group (RGF2) within the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center. I have over a decade’s worth of experience mentoring and training medical students, graduate students, postdocs and fellows. In addition, I participate as a faculty member and served on the curriculum committee for the Eureka Institute Virtual School, an international certificate program in translational research, and I serve as the director of alumni activities for the University of Arizona College of Medicine hub. My own translational research investigates obstructive lung disease and dysfunction of innate immunity in Asthma and respiratory infections.  I have led pulmonary function tests with collaborators for the past 10 years and have a strong history of collaborative co-publications in the field of lung function and asthma.

 

Degrees

• Ph.D. Genetics and Molecular Biology

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• B.S. Genetics

  • University of Georgia, Honor's Graduate, Summa cum laude

Work Experience

• Associate Professor (2019-present), University of AZ, Tucson, AZ

• Assistant Professor (2015-2019), University of AZ, Tucson, AZ

• Assistant Research Professor (2011-2014), Duke University, Durham, NC

Awards

• Eureka Certificate in Translational Medicine

  • Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Spring 2017

• Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science

  • American Thoracic Society, Spring 2012