Dr. Perpetua Muganda is a Professor of Biology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT) located in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. She obtained her B.S. degree in Biology, with a minor in Chemistry, from Lock Haven State College in Pennsylvania, USA, and her M.S. degree in Medical Biochemistry from Howard University in Washington, DC. She subsequently obtained her Ph.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine, where she majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, minored in Pharmacology, and performed research on a tumor virus system. Her postdoctoral training in tumor virology was conducted at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She then served as Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at El Paso, and Associate and Full Professor of Biology at Southern University in Baton Rouge; she joined the faculty at NCAT in August 2007. Her current research focuses on computational genomics and systems biology approaches to understand the role of tumor viruses in breast cancer and its associated health disparities. Dr. Muganda has served extensively on review panels for the National Institute of Health (NIH) and as a reviewer for various journals. She is the editor of Apoptosis Methods in Toxicology, a volume in the Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology Series, published by Humana Press in 2016.