April Weissmiller obtained her B.S. in Biology at San Diego State University and her Ph.D. in Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. During her doctoral work, she was funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a NIH T32 training grant. She then decided to switch fields to cancer biology and moved to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, to complete her postdoctoral training. While at Vanderbilt she received numerous awards, such as the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Young Investigator Award, the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research and Open Hands Overflowing Hearts Co-funded fellowship award, and the AACR Basic Cancer Research fellowship award. She remained at Vanderbilt for one year as a research assistant professor prior to starting her tenure track position in Fall of 2020 at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). At MTSU she leads a thriving research group centered on investigating basic mechanisms of cancer. Her key discoveries have exposed the mechanisms by which chromatin regulatory complexes, signaling proteins, and transcription factors promote pro-tumorigenic cancer gene expression in various pediatric and young adult tumor contexts. Dr. Weissmiller’s published papers highlight many of her students as co-authors and her research has been supported by cancer research foundation funding and multiple NIH awards, including support through the NIH R01, R15, R03, and R16 funding mechanisms.