Megan Damico, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Department: Focused InitiativesContact Information
About
Dr. Damico is the Associate Director of the Focused Initiatives Team (FIT) where she leads strategic efforts in organizing the NC bioeconomy. Her role on FIT is designed to help translate new technologies or policy ideas to broad stakeholder groups and scope out new opportunities in life sciences to bring coalitions of thought leaders together. She joined NCBiotech in May 2023 as an intern on FIT where she did foundation research on the NC bioeconomy and created bioeconomy definitions and conducted landscape analyses of the bioeconomy ecosystem in NC. Dr. Damico continued on at NCBiotech in August 2023 as a NC STEM Policy Fellow on the Life Science Economic Development team where she helped manage the Life Sciences Manufacturing Ambassador Program - part of the Accelerate NC Life Sciences Manufacturing Coalition that was funded by the EDA Build Back Better Regional Challenge Award and support economic development efforts.
Dr. Damico received her Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences in 2023 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she studied strain-level diversity in the honey bee gut microbiome and agricultural dietary supplement regulatory policy. She received her bachelor's degree in biomedical sciences from Grand Valley State University in Michigan.