Associate Director for Education and Training
Lucy Pemberton, PhD
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 434.243.6737
Lucy F. Pemberton, PhD, is the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center associate director for education and training. In her role, she focuses on developing and coordinating cancer-related training and education activities across the full spectrum of learners, including grade-school, undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, and junior faculty. She is also an associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and cancer biology.
As head of the cancer center’s Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination Core, Dr. Pemberton established the Cancer Research Postbaccalaureate Fellows Program supported by funding from the American Cancer Society (ACS). She leads the ACS-funded Cancer Research Summer Internship Program for undergraduates from under-resourced institutions and the Short-Term Research Initiative for Visiting Educators (STRIVE) program, which partners faculty from institutions with limited research resources with cancer center investigators.
Dr. Pemberton earned her doctorate in cancer cell and molecular biology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research, UK). She has served on the UVA School of Medicine faculty for more than two decades, with a research program focused on nucleo-cytoplasmic transport and chromatin structure. Her research has provided insights into the early steps of nucleosome biogenesis and the regulation of chromatin dynamics and integrity and has been funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Pemberton serves as director of graduate studies for microbiology, immunology, and cancer biology and has mentored numerous graduate and undergraduate students. She also serves on the UVA Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Admission Committee and co-chairs the UVA Cancer Graduate Program Admissions Cluster. She is a member of the National Institutes of Health T32 Cancer Research Training Program Executive Committee.