Bethany Powell Gray BS, PhD

Dr. Bethany Powell Gray received her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center studying peptide-targeted therapies for the treatment of lung cancer. During graduate school, she received both a University of Texas Chemistry/Biology Interface Fellowship and a Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) training award. Dr. Powell Gray then joined Bruce Sullenger’s lab at Duke University Medical Center as a postdoctoral associate, focusing on aptamer-targeted therapeutics and imaging agents and receiving a Department of Defense (DoD) Prostate Cancer Research Program Postdoctoral Training Award. Currently, Dr. Powell Gray is a senior research associate in the Sullenger lab, where she continues to develop novel aptamer therapeutics and imaging modalities