Almyra Oveta Fuller (August 31, 1955 – November 18, 2022) was an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at University of Michigan Medical School.
[3] After graduating from Bartlett Yancey High School, she earned an Aubrey Lee Brooks Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a BA in biology in 1977.
She was associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical School and faculty in the STEM Initiative of the African Studies at the University of Michigan.
[6] Fuller's research beginning as a postdoctoral fellow and continuing on similar topics, focuses on uncovering the molecular mechanisms of how pathogenic viruses enter and infect cells.
[7] Her lab is part of a collaborative effort with chemical engineering and human genetic researchers to develop microchip technologies for early, quick, and inexpensive methods of viral infection detection.
In January 2013, she began nine months of research in the Copperbelt region in Zambia,[14] which her work focused on bringing biomedical information into communities through local religious leaders.