Laurie Littlepage

Laurie Littlepage, Ph.D., Director of Health Care Laurie is an active Board member and currently leads Hope Street Group's health care policy team and joined the Board in 2004.

Laurie is a scientist at the University of California, San Francisco in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Anatomy. While focusing her research on breast and prostate cancer, she has co-authored numerous peer reviewed scientific articles and given seminars on her studies of genes that contribute to cancer progression.

Laurie consults with UCSF departments and programs to develop mentoring opportunities for postdocs and students and has led efforts promoting the advancement of women scientists.  She is a leader in the American Society for Cell Biology, an international society of more than 11,000 members that promotes and develops scientific training of cell biologists.  Through her leadership, Laurie bridges the scientific community with nonscientists and promotes career advancement for women.  She is an active writer on career advancement for scientists in training and speaks publicly on cancer research and scientific funding.

Laurie has a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University, where she received a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and university service award.  She received a B.S. Biochemistry and B.S. Molecular Biology magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a Barry Goldwater scholar and Dean's Scholar.  Currently she is supported by the American Cancer Society and previously by the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health.