Dr. Perpetua Muganda

Dr. Perpetua Muganda is a Professor of Biology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT) located in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA; she has served in this position for the past 17 years.  Dr. Muganda obtained her B.S. degree in Biology, with a minor in Chemistry, from Lock Haven State College in Pennsylvania, USA, and her M.S. degree in Medical Biochemistry from Howard University in Washington, DC.   She subsequently obtained her Ph.D. degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, where she majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, minored in Pharmacology, and performed research on a tumor virus system. Dr. Muganda underwent postdoctoral training in tumor virology at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She subsequently served as Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at El Paso, and Associate and Full Professor of Biology at Southern University in Baton Rouge; she joined the faculty at NCAT in August 2007.  Dr. Muganda possesses broad scientific research interests and expertise, scientific leadership and service experiences, as well as broad teaching abilities.  Her current research focuses on computational genomics and systems biology approaches to understand the role of tumor viruses in breast cancer and its associated health disparities. In the area of scientific leadership and service experiences, Dr. Muganda has extensively served on review panels for National Institute of Health (NIH), and as a reviewer for various journals.  She is editor of Apoptosis Methods in Toxicology, a volume in the Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology Series, published by Humana Press in 2016.  Dr. Muganda has previously served as Director of the $5 million NIH NIEHS-funded ARCH Program, and the $1.4 million NIH NIGMS-funded SCORE Program while serving as a faculty member at Southern University.  Dr. Muganda served as the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS) Research Navigator for NCAT for 6 years; in this position Dr. Muganda served on NC TraCS pilot project review panels, and helps faculty members in proposal development.  Dr. Muganda currently teaches graduate courses entitled Recent Advances in Cell Biology, Principles of Virology, Systems Biology, and Writing in the Biological Sciences; she also teaches an independent study undergraduate research class based on computational genomics to upper-level undergraduate students.   Dr. Muganda is certified by the American Colleges and Universities Educators (ACUE) to conduct course instruction online.  These broad interests and experiences in research, teaching, as well as scientific leadership and service enable Dr. Muganda to be an asset in broad academic environments.  Dr. Muganda serves as the Workshop, Training, and Outreach Coordinator for GRADS-4C.