Kirsten Taylor-McCabe, Ph.D.

Kirsten Taylor-McCabe, Ph.D., is a Program Manager in the National Security and Defense. and Intelligence and Emerging Threats Program Offices within Global Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is also the point of contact for the COVID-19 Modeling Team for DOE’s National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory. Kirsten has spent the past 20 years in technical and programmatic oversight of biodefense projects varying from the detection of biological and chemical threats to novel data stream evaluations for biosurveillance. Kirsten holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biochemistry from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and has served in varied Biosecurity Strategic Road mapping efforts. She may be reached at [email protected].