Elena Bargagli is an Associate Professor at the Respiratory Diseases Section of the University of Siena. She obtained her medical degree and completed her training in respiratory medicine at the University of Siena, Italy, and subsequently specialized in ILD in the regional ILD specialist center in Siena. She mainly deals with translational and precision medicine, dedicating much of her research activity to the study of diagnostic and prognostic markers of rare lung diseases, lung transplant complications, and severe asthma. Her clinical interests include connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs), sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), Pulmonary Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis (PLCH), and lymphangioleyomyomatosis (LAM). Her main research interest has focused on the study of proteomic analysis in the fluids of patients with ILD, the potential role of chitinase in sarcoidosis pathogenesis, and the identification of prognostic biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).