Moody, Cary

Dr. Moody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is also a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is the Co-Director of the NIH NIAID NRSA-Funded “Molecular Biology of Viral Diseases” T32 training program.

Dr. Moody received a B.S. and M.S. in Microbiology from Mississippi State University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. She received a PhD in Microbiology from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport in 2004. She completed her post-doctoral training with Dr. Lou Laimins at Northwestern University School of Medicine from 2005-2010. Dr. Moody joined the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 2010.

Research in Dr. Moody’s lab focuses on understanding how cancer-associated HPVs alter the host cell during the different stages of the viral life cycle to promote viral replication. Her studies aim to identify cellular signaling pathways commandeered by HPV to facilitate viral DNA synthesis and to determine the impact of modifying the cellular environment on host genomic stability. Dr. Moody’s research has been continuously funded by the U.S. NIH since 2010. Her work has also been supported by a Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society.