2025 Donald Seldin Lecturer – Nora Franceschini, MD, MPH, FAHA

Nora Franceschini, MD, MPH, FAHA

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dr. Nora Franceschini is a nephrologist-trained physician and a Professor of Epidemiology and Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She leads multidisciplinary and international studies of chronic kidney disease. Her research focuses on genetic risk factors for hypertension, kidney and cardiovascular diseases in U.S. and global populations. It includes gene discovery and studies that characterize the context in which genetic variants contribute to disease.

She is also leading research in chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities in Central America.