Felicia Goodrum graduated with her Ph.D. from Wake Forest University and then trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Thomas Shenk at Princeton University where she was a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow and Special Fellow. Dr. Goodrum joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in the Department of Immunobiology and the BIO5 Institute in 2006 and is an Assoicate Professor. Dr. Goodrum is the recipient of the Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences Award and the Presidential Award for Early Career Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Goodrum's work throughout her career has focused on complex interaction between viruses and their host and is currently focused on the mechanisms of viral persistence of human cytomegalovirus.