Senior Research Associate of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Oregon Health and Science University. Ms.Stevens is an inventor of our protective stroke therapy. She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Lewis and Clark College in 1988, and has been a research scientist for 15 years and a laboratory director for 10 years. She is the coordinator of numerous stroke-related NIH grants including a 7.5 million dollar multi-center Program Project Grant and a phase II STTR between OHSU and Virogenomics, Inc.