Allison McMullen, PhD, joined Roche Diagnostics as a scientific affairs manager for molecular diagnostics in 2020. She earned her PhD in experimental pathology/virology at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she studied the molecular epidemiology of West Nile Virus. Dr. McMullen completed a postdoctoral research fellowship studying HPV at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Chronic Viral Disease Branch). Afterward, she served as an ASM/CPEP Fellow in clinical microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine. Most recently, Dr. McMullen was the medical director of microbiology and immunology at Augusta University Medical Center and an associate professor in the Department of Pathology at Medical College of Georgia.