Byron Caughey, PhD NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories

Dr. Caughey received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 and completed postdoctoral studies in Pharmacology at Duke University Medical Center from 1985 to 1986.

He has conducted TSE/prion research in the Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases since 1986. He became a tenured senior investigator in 1994. Dr. Caughey is also an editor for the Journal of Virology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.