C. Thomas Caskey, MD, FACP serves as the director of the Brown Foundation Institute of
Molecular medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in
Houston. He served as Senior Vice President, Human Genetics
and Vaccines Discovery at Merck Research Laboratories, West Point and
President of the Merck Genome Research Institute. He is an Adjunct
Professor, Department of Molecular & Human Genetics at
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Dr. Caskey earned his
medical doctorate from Duke University, Durham, NC. He has received
numerous academic and industry–related honors. His genetic
research has identified the genetic basis of 10 major inheritable diseases
and opened the understanding of triplet repeat diseases (Fragile X, myotonic dystrophy and others).
He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine. He is Past President of
the American Society of Human Genetics and the Human Genome
Organization. |
