Dr. Megan Freeman, MD/PhD
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Biology, Virology
Research Summary
Dr. Freeman completed her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Vanderbilt University, where she studied the cell biology of coronaviruses.
She moved to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for Pediatrics Residency and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship, where her current research interests include pathogenesis and cell biology of RNA viruses and advanced tissue modeling, with a current focus on enterovirus D68, the hypothesized cause of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in children.
“The Beckman Scholars Program and the mentoring I received during the process was critical to my decision to pursue a career as a physician scientist. Thanks for supporting young investigators!
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