She received a 2010 National Science Foundation grant for Ethics Education in Science and Engineering and is an ethics consultant on several other federal grants. She was previously the principal investigator of National Institutes of Health grants "The Collaborative Initiative for Research Ethics in Environmental Health" (2000-2007) and "Nuclear Risk Management to Native Communities" (1994-2000). Dr. Quigley was executive director of the Childhood Cancer Research Institute (1987-2000). She earned her Ph.D. in religious studies from Syracuse University in 2009.