Shannon Conley, Ph.D.

Shannon Conley, Ph.D., is a researcher and faculty member in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She has worked in age-related diseases and smooth muscle cell biology for more than 10 years and has published more than 90 research articles. During her graduate and postgraduate training, she gained extensive experience and skill sets in neuronal and vascular diseases in the aging eye. Her early work on vascular and degenerative diseases prompted her to pursue her research interests in vascular smooth muscle cell biology in the aging brain and to establish her sustainable, independent NIH-funded research program. Since obtaining her first faculty position in 2012, one of her greatest pleasures is working one-on-one with students in the lab to help them learn technical, analytical, writing, communication and professional skills. She has mentored students at a variety of levels. Conley earned her doctorate from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Arizona, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology at the OU College of Medicine. She is a member of the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, the American Aging Association, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. She is associate editor of the journal GeroScience.