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Dr. Rebecca Colman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Physiology at UC San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. in biological sciences from Northern Arizona University, where she studied molecular genetics, and her BSc in biology and chemistry from Linfield University. Dr. Colman completed postdoctoral training in next-generation sequencing at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), and in tuberculosis diagnostics at UC San Diego. Dr. Colman has also served as a scientific advisor for the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, collaborating with global partners to develop and validate sequencing-based tools for infectious disease surveillance and care. Her research focuses on sequence-based diagnostics and culture-free detection of drug-resistant pathogens directly from clinical samples, and has contributed to WHO-endorsed diagnostic initiatives aimed at improving global health equity through accessible precision diagnostics.
