Dr. Adang is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia's Foundation Fellowship scholarship program and a graduate of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Virginia, where she received both her M.D. and Ph.D. Her graduate work in the laboratory of Dean H. Kedes M.D. Ph.D. characterized the immune evasion mechanisms of herpesvirus infections. Her work has been published in Cell, Journal of Clinical Investigations, and Journal of Virology, among others.