Fellow Spotlight: Miranda Culley, MD, PhD

Miranda Culley, MD, PhD, hails from Cincinnati, and earned her bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and classics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, followed by her medical degree and PhD in vascular biology from the University of Pittsburgh. Her doctoral research focused on early endothelial-specific changes in the pulmonary vasculature, particularly the iron-sulphur cluster pathway, that predispose people to pulmonary hypertension – a type of high blood pressure that affects arteries of the lungs and the right side of the heart.

She completed her internal medicine residency at UCSF, and said she feels “thankful and privileged” to stay here for fellowship. “I appreciate UCSF’s open and collaborative ethos, and the opportunity to train at three hospitals,” said Dr. Culley. “The faculty and other fellows have been very generous with their time, and the learning opportunities are really stellar.” She is particularly interested in preventive cardiology as well as advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, and hopes to lead her own basic and translational lab focused on endothelial and vascular biology. Outside of science and medicine, she enjoys cultivating her houseplants, rollerblading, and learning how to ride her new moped