Jeff Boyd, PhD  

Director Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial Health University Medical Center
Vice president for Laboratory Science at Memorial Health University Medical Center
Medical School Representative

Representing the Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia, Dr. Jeff Boyd, is the vice president for laboratory science at Memorial Health, and director of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial Health University Medical Center. He has a national and international reputation as one of the leading scientists in the study of the molecular genetics of women’s cancers and was named a Distinguished Cancer Scholar by the Georgia Cancer Coalition. Boyd came to Savannah from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he served as an attending biologist and director of the gynecology and breast research laboratory in the Department of Surgery and director of the diagnostic molecular genetics laboratory in the Department of Medicine.

Boyd earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University and his Doctor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. Throughout his career, Boyd has received more than 14 National Institutes of Health (NIH) or NIH-equivalent research grants totaling several million dollars. He has served on the editorial boards of five prestigious journals, including the American Journal of Pathology and the Journal of Clinical Oncology.