Also, she is the Director of the UCSF – Tuskegee Summer Internship in Bioengineering and she is Co-Director of the UCSF Tumor Microenvironment Network Imaging and Tissue Procurement Core in Neurosurgery. Dr. McKnight received her BS in Physics from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1988, and she obtained her MS in Physics from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, in 1990. She completed her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1998, followed by a visiting postdoctoral scholar at UCSF.