She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the Carnegie Mellon University in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University in 2003. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California San Francisco in 2009. Her research is focused on bacterial pathogenesis, with specific interests in defining the molecular mechanisms underlying how pathogenic mycobacteria cause disease, including Tuberculosis. Champion has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, and her work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals. She is affiliated with the Eck Institute for Global Health and the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases.