Amanda Woerman
Amanda Woerman received her PhD in Molecular Medicine from The George Washington University in 2013. Working with Dr. David Mendelowitz, she designed the first animal model of perinatal exposure to the air pollutant sulfur dioxide and identified the mechanism by which it produces tachycardia and cardiovascular disease. In July 2013, Amanda joined Dr. Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as a postdoctoral fellow, where she developed cellular assays for tau and alpha-synuclein prions, which she employed to investigate the role of prion strains in neurodegenerative disease. Amanda was an Assistant Professor of Biology at UMass Amherst from September 2019-August 2023, and is now an Associate Professor in the Prion Research Center and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University.