Professor Melissa Davis

Dr. Davis graduated from an undergraduate Historically Black College, Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, and obtained her PhD in Molecular Genetics at University of Georgia in Athens. Her postdoctoral training was in functional genomics and systems biology, which led to her focus in racial disparities of breast cancer mortality and using genetic ancestry tools to identify biological determinants of these disparities. Her pioneering work has uncovered groundbreaking discoveries in genetic networks related to immunological and tumor phenotype distinctions across patient groups from African ancestry.