Maria Alice V. Willrich PhD, DABCC, FAACC

Maria Alice Willrich, Ph.D., is a clinical chemist with a focus on clinical and diagnostic immunology. She is a consultant in the department of laboratory medicine and pathology and oversees laboratory testing in different clinical laboratories within the division of clinical biochemistry and immunology. Besides clinical laboratory testing interests, Dr. Willrich is active in research and education, serving as associate program director for the post-doctoral clinical chemistry fellowship program at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Maria Willrich's research projects span four areas related to immunology: laboratory testing for the monoclonal gammopathies, analysis of immunoglobulins free light chains in cerebrospinal fluid, the complement system, and development of innovative methods of detection for monoclonal antibody therapeutics using mass spectrometry.