Meredith Yeager

Yeager completed a B.S. at Radford University.[1] She earned an M.S. at Hood College.[1] She completed a Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University.[1] Her 1998 dissertation was titled, Peptide binding function and MHC evolution.[2]

At its founding in 2001, Yeager was part of the scientific and operations management team of Core Genotyping Facility at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).[3] The team included director Stephen Chanock, deputy director Robert A. Welch, and director of operations Amy A. Hutchinson.[3] By 2015, Yeager was the scientific director of the NCI cancer genomics research laboratory.[3] In 2018, she was part of the HPV genomics team awarded a NCI director award for innovative development of novel HPV assays.[4]

In 2019, Yeager presented an overview of genetic and genomic laboratory tools and approaches as part of the NCI radiation epidemiology and dosimetry course.[5] In 2020, Yeager, in the Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, conducted a genetic study to determine how different African groups contributed to the genetic structure of Caribbean, as well as, North, Central, and South American populations.[6]

Yeager is a member of the graduate faculty at Hood College. She is an assistant professor of biology and program director of biomedical science.[1]