Stella Meredith Yeager is an American geneticist who specializes in cancer genomics. She was the scientific director of the cancer genomics research laboratory at the

National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...

. Yeager is an assistant professor of biology at

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Life

Yeager completed a B.S. at

Radford University Radford University is a public university in Radford, Virginia. It is one of the state's eight doctorate-granting public universities. Founded in 1910, Radford offers curricula for undergraduates in more than 100 fields, graduate programs inclu ...

. She earned an M.S. at

. She completed a Ph.D. at the

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. Her 1998 dissertation was titled, ''Peptide binding function and MHC evolution''. At its founding in 2001, Yeager was part of the scientific and operations management team of Core Genotyping Facility at the

(NCI). The team included director Stephen Chanock, deputy director

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, and director of operations Amy A. Hutchinson. By 2015, Yeager was the scientific director of the NCI cancer genomics research laboratory. In 2018, she was part of the HPV genomics team awarded a NCI director award for innovative development of novel HPV assays. In 2019, Yeager presented an overview of genetic and genomic laboratory tools and approaches as part of the NCI radiation epidemiology and dosimetry course. In 2020, Yeager, in the Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory at the

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

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