Dr. Moss received her doctorate from the University of Kentucky and completed postdoctoral training at the Mayo Clinic. She joined the faculty at South Carolina in 2004, where she now serves as Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program.  She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts, with a current research focus in the area of amyloid protein aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease.  Dr. Moss was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and an AHA Postdoctoral Fellow.  As a faculty member, she has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, a New Investigator Research Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, and a Beginning Grant-In-Aid from AHA.  Currently, she is part of the NIH-funded COBRE for Dietary Supplements and Inflammation from which she is funded to study the role of plant polyphenols in preventing Alzheimer’s Disease.  In addition, Dr. Moss is currently funded by the NSF to study the evolution of early amyloid protein aggregates and by the NIH to investigate the propagation of small Ab oligomers.  Dr. Moss received the 2012 Governor’s Young Scientist Award and was named a 2010 Rising Star by the University.  In addition, she has received a Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award, a Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, the Ada B. Thomas Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, and the Joseph M. Biedenbach Service Award.