Dr. Lori Millner, PhD, NRCC

Laboratory Director & Technical Consultant, LLS

Dr. Lori Millner received her PhD in 2011 from the University of Louisville in Pharmacology and Toxicology. Her dissertation focused on the characterization of a phase II metabolic enzyme, N-acetyltranferase, for which she received the K. C. Huang Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award and the Dean’s Citation. Following completion of her doctorate, she completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship where she researched Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and cell free nucleic acid (cfNA). In 2012, she entered a 3-year COMACC accredited fellowship in Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of Louisville Hospital Laboratory. During the fellowship, she also continued her research on CTCs and was the lead author on a funded SBIR grant.

Dr. Millner has several peer reviewed and published manuscripts and has won numerous awards for her research including the Young Investigator Award and Best Abstract Award from the American Association of Clinical Chemists and the Young Scientist Award (Innovator in Science) from the Association of Clinical Scientists. Dr. Millner has served as a lab director and consultant for numerous clinical laboratories for the last 8 years. She has performed numerous laboratory developed test validations and has experience with many types of molecular diagnostic testing.