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Milene T. Saavedra, Denver, USA

National Jewish Health

Dr. Milene Saavedra has served as faculty at the University of Colorado Denver and National Jewish Health Adult CF Program for over a decade. In addition to attending in the CF clinic, which covers a catchment area of 6 states, she attends on a bustling CF inpatient service. She has been awarded funding from the NIH and CFF multiple for multiple avenues of research, spanning from studies of signaling in airway epithelial cells, Pseudomonas pathogenesis, neutrophilic inflammation, and circulating biomarkers of therapeutic response. She has authored/co-authored 15 publications specifically studying the role of inflammation in cystic fibrosis. She participates on the CFF Protocol Review Committee and has served as PI on multiple clinical translational research studies, mentored fellows and residents in research, and served as an ad hoc reviewer for NIH study sections. Her principal research interest is the search for better performing measures of pulmonary inflammation from whole blood, using methods which are readily available in clinical laboratories today. She strongly believes that the development of biomarkers which better capture the heterogeneity of patient treatment responses is a necessary achievement in order to deliver personalized medical care to a diverse CF population.

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