Cassandra Leah Quave PhD

Cassandra L. Quave, PhD, holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Dermatology in the Emory University School of Medicine and Emory Center for the Study of Human Health, where she leads drug discovery research initiatives and teaches courses on medicinal plants, food and health. Dr. Quave also serves as Curator of the Emory University Herbarium, and is Associated Faculty with the Departments of Biology, Environmental Sciences and Anthropology at Emory.

Dr. Quave is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics research program at Winship Cancer Institute. She is also a member of the Emory University Antibiotic Resistance Center and serves on the training faculty for the Antibiotic Resistance and Therapeutic Discovery Training Program, the Molecular and Systems Pharmacology Graduate Program and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Graduate Program at Emory.