Clinical Fellow
Marsico Lung Institute/Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
My name is Padraig Hawkins MD, PhD and I work in the Boucher lab at the CF center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel hill. I am also completing a pulmonary fellowship at UNC. I am interesting in understanding the impact of the respiratory virus SARS-CoV-2 on individuals with cytsic fibrosis.
I completed by PhD at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, under the mentorshiop of Professor Gerry McElvaney studying the modulation of neutrophil reacitve oxygen species by alpha-one antitrypsin, with a particular focus on individuals deficient in this protein. My areas of clinical intersts are cystic fibrosis and non-CF bronchiectasis.