Brittany Leigh, Ph.D.

Brittany Leigh, Ph.D., leverages her scientific expertise to develop compelling narratives and comprehensive communications strategies for companies across therapeutic areas with complex scientific stories. Bridging across the client services and medical communications team, she works with client partners to develop a scientific strategy to efficiently accomplish key corporate and scientific objectives. Her work includes corporate and scientific messaging, mechanism of action narratives, disease awareness campaigns, clinical trial recruitment, scientific strategy for data dissemination and corporate communications strategy.

Prior to joining LifeSci, she trained as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University where she led the virology research for a clinical trial and investigated cellular mechanism behind vector control strategies to combat transmission of RNA viruses. Prior to her time at Vanderbilt, Brittany received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida investigating the interplay between the immune system of marine organisms and the ocean of microbes they inhabit. Combined with her pre-doctoral experience in shark cancer resistance research, she maintains a wide array of expertise including genetics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, microbiology, virology, biochemistry, immunology, and oncology.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida in Biology.