Penn Medicine Provider
Pulmonary Medicine
Maria Coccia Basil, MD, PhD
4.8
(44)
Accepting new patients
Harron Lung Center University City

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
4.8

44 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

April 2025
5.0
5.0
very compassionate, caring and very helpful.
March 2025
5.0
5.0
confidence in dr. basil.
January 2025
5.0
5.0
i have confidence in dr. basil.
November 2024
2.0
2.0
it depends on the knee of the individual are always leave room of the unknown

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Dr. Basil is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Basil MC, Cardenas-Diaz FL, Kathiriya JJ, Morley MP, Carl J, Brumwell AN, Katzen J, Slovik KJ, Babu A, Zhou S, Kremp MM, McCauley KB, Li S, Planer JD, Hussain SS, Liu X, Windmueller R, Ying Y, Stewart KM, Oyster M, Christie JD, Diamond JM, Engelhardt JF, Cantu E, Rowe SM, Kotton DN, Chapman HA, Morrisey EE. Human distal airways contain a multipotent secretory cell that can regenerate alveoli , Nature, 604(7904): 2022,120-126


Shiraishi K, Shah PP, Morley MP, Loebel C, Santini GT, Katzen J, Basil MC, Lin SM, Planer JD, Cantu E, Jones DL, Nottingham AN, Li S, Cardenas-Diaz FL, Zhou S, Burdick JA, Jain R, Morrisey EE. Biophysical forces mediated by respiration maintain lung alveolar epithelial cell fate. , Cell, 186(7): 2023,1478


Crnkovic S, Valzano F, Fließer E, Gindlhuber J, Thekkekara Puthenparampil H, Basil MC, Morley MP, Katzen J, Gschwandtner E, Klepetko W, Cantu E, Wolinski H, Olschewski H, Lindenmann J, Zhao YY, Morrisey EE, Marsh LM, Kwapiszewska G. Single cell transcriptomics reveals skewed cellular communication and phenotypic shift in pulmonary artery remodeling. , JCI Insight, 7(20): 2022,e153471


Guo M, Morley MP, Jiang C, Wu Y, Li G, Du Y, Zhao S, Wagner A, Cakar AC, Kouril M, Jin K, Gaddis N, Kitzmiller JA, Stewart K, Basil MC, Lin SM, Ying Y, Babu A, Wikenheiser-Brokamp KA, Mun KS, Naren AP, Clair G, Adkins JN, Pryhuber GS, Misra RS, Aronow BJ, Tickle TL, Salomonis N, Sun X, Morrisey EE, Whitsett JA, Xu Y Guided construction of single cell reference for human and mouse lung. , Nature Communication, 14(1): 2023,4556


Ferguson LT, Hood ED, Shuvaeva T, Shuvaev VV, Basil MC, Wang Z, Nong J, Ma X, Wu J, Myerson JW, Marcos-Contreras OA, Katzen J, Carl JM, Morrisey EE, Cantu E, Villa CH, Mitragotri S, Muzykantov VR, Brenner JS. Dual Affinity to RBCs and Target Cells (DART) Enhances Both Organ- and Cell Type-Targeting of Intravascular Nanocarriers , ACS Nano, 16(3): 2022,4666-4683


Loebel C, Weiner AI, Eiken MK, Katzen JB, Morley MP, Bala V, Cardenas-Diaz FL, Davidson MD, Shiraishi K, Basil MC, Ferguson LT, Spence JR, Ochs M, Beers MF, Morrisey EE, Vaughan AE, Burdick JA Microstructured Hydrogels to Guide Self-Assembly and Function of Lung Alveolospheres , Adv Mater, 34(28): 2022,e2202992


Sun X, Perl AK, Li R, Bell SM, Sajti E, Kalinichenko VV, Kalin TV, Misra RS, Deshmukh H, Clair G, Kyle J, Crotty Alexander LE, Masso-Silva JA, Kitzmiller JA, Wikenheiser-Brokamp KA, Deutsch G, Guo M, Du Y, Morley MP, Valdez MJ, Yu HV, Jin K, Bardes EE, Zepp JA, Neithamer T, Basil MC, Zacharias WJ, Verheyden J, Young R, Bandyopadhyay G, Lin S, Ansong C, Adkins J, Salomonis N, Aronow BJ, Xu Y, Pryhuber G, Whitsett J, Morrisey EE; NHLBI LungMAP Consortium. A census of the lung: CellCards from LungMAP , Dev Cell, 57(1): 2022,112-145


Toulmin SA, Bhadiadra C, Paris AJ, Lin JH, Katzen J, Basil MC, Morrisey EE, Worthen GS, Eisenlohr LC. Type II alveolar cell MHCII improves respiratory viral disease outcomes while exhibiting limited antigen presentation , Nat Commun, 12(1): 2021,3993


Zepp JA, Morley MP, Loebel C, Kremp MM, Chaudhry FN, Basil MC, Leach JP, Liberti DC, Niethamer TK, Ying Y, Jayachandran S, Babu A, Zhou S, Frank DB, Burdick JA, Morrisey EE Genomic, epigenomic, and biophysical cues controlling the emergence of the lung alveolus , Science, 371(6534): 2021,eabc3172


Obraztsova K, Basil MC, Rue R, Sivakumar A, Lin SM, Mukhitov AR, Gritsiuta AI, Evans JF, Kopp M, Katzen J, Robichaud A, Atochina-Vasserman EN, Li S, Carl J, Babu A, Morley MP, Cantu E, Beers MF, Frank DB, Morrisey EE, Krymskaya VP. mTORC1 activation in lung mesenchyme drives sex- and age-dependent pulmonary structure and function decline , Nat Commun, 11(1): 2020,5640