Megan O’Donnell joined the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory Biology unit in 2016 where she currently serves as the supervising Forensic Scientist and the Technical Leader. She is an active member of New Hampshire’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Board, where she participates in the training of new SANE nurses and the state’s sexual assault kit design. Since 2022, she has led a fantastic group of scientists on a journey to optimize DNA analysis in the state of New Hampshire and the United States having successfully sponsored the first 8-dye STR and Y-STR chemistry to be given NDIS approval for use in CODIS as well as becoming the first forensic laboratory in the world with an 8-dye chemistry analysis and interpretation workflow with FaSTR DNA and STRMix software.
