Stephen Lloyd

Dr. Lloyd’s academic career has been evenly distributed at three university medical schools, including Vanderbilt University, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and Oregon Health & Science University, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, and the Associate Director of Basic Research for the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences. After earning his Ph.D. at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Hospital, postdoctoral training at Stanford University, and working for a genetic engineering company, Genex Corporation, he was recruited to the Department of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt, rising through the academic ranks to Professor. He was then recruited to join the Sealy Center for Molecular Science at UTMB, where he was the first director of their NIEHS P30 Center and headed the Sealy Center in Environmental Health and Medicine. In 2003, Dr. Lloyd and Dr. Amanda McCullough had the opportunity to join OHSU, where their laboratories focus on DNA repair and mutagenesis. The primary emphasis of their investigations is to translate and apply basic science knowledge to clinically germane therapeutics. For several decades, their work has laid the foundation for prevention of sunlight-induced skin cancers through enhancement of the DNA repair capacity of skin cells. Their laboratories are well funded with several NIH grants that include other investigations in prevention of environmental carcinogenesis and improved clinical therapeutics.