Megan Culler Freeman, MD, PhD is currently a senior Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
She completed her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Kentucky, and then earned her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Vanderbilt University, where she studied coronaviruses. She completed her Pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh as part of the Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PedSDP). She currently works in the laboratory of Carolyn Coyne, where her 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. She is the proud recipient of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society-St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Fellowship Program in Basic and Translational Research.
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