Laura Walkup

Laura Walkup is Associate Professor in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her research focuses on advanced pulmonary imaging techniques including hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI and ultrashort echo time MRI for pediatric respiratory conditions.

Research applications include cystic fibrosis, pediatric asthma, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and lymphatic anomalies. Walkup develops quantitative methods for assessing lung structure-function relationships and ventilation heterogeneity in clinical populations.