She is also the Director of the Stephenson Family Personalized Medicine Center of USC. Dr. Mumenthaler completed her Bachelors of Science in Genetics at UC Davis. She then went on to earn a doctoral degree in Cellular and Molecular Pathology at UCLA and carried out her postdoctoral training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and USC. Shannon has over 10 years of experience working with various tumor models and cell biology techniques. Her research passion is taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the impact of the tumor microenvironment on treatment response. She is developing more physiologically-relevant model systems that capture the microenvironmental context of a tumor and coupling these preclinical models with quantitative microscopy-based imaging pipelines to provide deeper insights into the evolving tumor.