Amanda K. McCullough

Dr. McCullough is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and is a member of the Knight Cancer Institute, Cancer Biology Program. She is currently serving as Vice Chair of Basic Sciences and co-Director of the Graduate Program for Molecular & Medical Genetics and Director of the Genome Sciences Hub in the Program in Biomedical Sciences. Dr. McCullough earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Vermont. She completed postdoctoral training in the Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology at Oregon Health & Science University and in the Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Her research is focused on the translation of fundamental basic science discoveries of cellular DNA damage response pathways into actionable clinical interventions and improved therapeutic response. In collaboration with Stephen Lloyd, she has studied the DNA repair of UV-induced DNA lesions for over 20 years and has contributed both mechanistic biochemistry and cell biology to the field and recently extended these investigations to pre-clinical models of human therapeutics.