Director, Science & Research
GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer

As Director of Science and Research, Dr. Amy C. Moore combines her expertise as a Ph.D.-trained virologist and cancer researcher with over a decade of non-profit experience to help advance GO2 Foundation's science initiatives, with a particular focus on cultivating partnerships and new research studies with our sister organization, the Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI), as well as stewarding collaborations with patient groups and managing our grants portfolio. Before joining GO2 Foundation, Amy spent 10 years building research capacity in the state of GA, where she served as the Director of Research Programs for the Georgia Research Alliance, a public:private partnership founded in 1990 that helped recruit leading scientists across GA’s research universities and created startup companies around new technologies and discoveries emerging from university laboratories. She also previously served as Director of Research Programs for the Georgia Cancer Coalition, which leveraged GA’s tobacco settlement dollars to build a nationally-recognized cancer initiative, with a focus on recruiting top researchers and launching a statewide biorepository. Amy earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and holds a B.S. in Biology (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude) from Furman University. As a postdoc at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, she studied molecular mechanisms of acute leukemia development as an American Cancer Society Fellow. Amy also earned a professional certificate in Research Administration from Georgia State University, where she was in the first graduating class of the Executive Leadership Academy for Women and served as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Biology and frequently taught a cancer course in the Honors College.