Biography

Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins, Ph.D. is a Program Director at the National Institutes of Health at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Lung Diseases in the Airway Biology and Disease Branch. Her portfolio areas of focus are respiratory medicine, pulmonary pathophysiology and immunology with a concentration in diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis, disorders of mucociliary clearance including ciliopathies and other rare lung diseases. Her current portfolio also includes respiratory tract infections/susceptibility, mucins/mucus biology, mucosal immunology, epithelial cell biology, gene delivery and editing technologies and women’s health. Before joining NHLBI in 2018, she was an Assistant Research Professor at University of California San Francisco in the Airway Clinical Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Pathology at the University of California Davis in 2010 and a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Pathology from University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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