Dr. Moran earned her PhD in Microbiology, Cancer Biology and Immunology from the University of Minnesota where she trained with Dr. Kristin Hogquist revealing how T cell receptor signal strength was critical for lineage fate decisions during development. She joined the department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology at Oregon Health & Science University in May of 2017 where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research focuses on how sex hormones regulate T cell function within mouse and human primary and metastatic tumors. Her group utilizes a variety of tools to interrogate these fundamental and translational questions including transgenic and chimeric mouse models, in vivo tumor modeling, in vitro cellular assays, monoclonal antibodies and small molecules as cancer therapeutics, single cell ‘omics, and flow cytometry. She partners with clinicians and computational biologists, training graduate students and postdocs within her laboratory with an overall goal of moving benchtop discoveries back into the clinic for the care of patients with cancer.