She holds a secondary appointment in the Division of Pharmacology within the Department of Medicine. Her research seeks to define the role of drug metabolism and reactive metabolite formation in the toxicities associated with the use of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors to treat HIV-1.Dr. Bumpus received her Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She then completed a fellowship at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, where she studied the regulation of cyp4a and cyp4f genes in mice.Dr. Bumpus has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and serves on the editorial board of the journal Drug Metabolism and Disposition. In 2013, she was honored with the prestigious Tanabe Young Investigator Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology.